http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN10429971 Starting next year ('08-'09), Harvard is slashing prices for middle and upper-middle families and essentially making them nonexistant for low class families! If your family earns (per year) . . . expect to pay (tuition per year): Less than $60,000 . . . $0 $60,000 to $80,000 . . . Far less (<10% income) Up to $180,000 . . . 10% of income (potentially $18,000 a year as opposed to $31,456; $45,456 with room, board and service fees) This is such good news for me, since this means other top-tier schools will follow suit starting in my first year ('09-'10). It's especially good news since I have a twin, so my parents will be paying less than $36,000 per year as opposed to $90,000 per year for education. :eusa_danc
pomona college in CA is making changes as well, the just shifted from loans to 100% grant aid which is nice. unfortunately there is no way in hell that i qualify for financial aid. my parents make enough money that we dont qualify, but they will be paying for three private college educations simultaneously by the time i get there. (and they just finished paying for my oldest sister who graduated). so we have basically had to put off all projects we had planned to add onto or rennovate our house, it stinks. when we told my grandfather that college these days costs around 50,000 a year he almost had a heart attack because he went to UChicago for only $150 a semeter, and he eventually got a half scholarship lol.
I am in the process of applying to Harvard as well. There is aid for international students. I hope I'm good enough...
Usually ~9% of Harvard is international, I think. You HAVE to be the best of the best to get in, though.
