Aurora Sky Castner, a Texas teen who was born in jail and graduated at the top of her class this week, will be attending Harvard University in the fall
Harvard earns enough off trust interest they’d never have to charge another student tuition and room/board if they didn’t want to.
They could just take all the smartest kids like this regardless of where they come from.
They do, technically. The admissions process is need-blind, meaning they decide whether to accept a student before looking at any financials, then provide enough financial aid for them to attend. Something like a quarter of the students don’t pay anything.
They do, technically. The admissions process is need-blind, meaning they decide whether to accept a student before looking at any financials, then provide enough financial aid for them to attend. Something like a quarter of the students don’t pay anything.
So they’re falling behind the rest of the Western world for 75% of their student body
Yeah, 25% is what the website says, but that sounds like it includes scholarships. So pretty much every athlete and other scholarships.
They have an estimate tool too
https://college.harvard.edu/financial-aid/net-price-calculator
75k parental income and 10k in assets was enough for it to be 15k/year.
That’s a lot of money to a family of four with 1 kid in college.
And Harvard doesn’t need a penny of it.