Whoaaaaaaaaa

http://www.vox.com/2015/4/1/8328091/stanford-tuition-financial-aid

a:

i hope more universities follow suit b/c this is awesome.

b:

fuck Stanford.

fuck you.

for over 5 years

so does my alma mater - grants only, no student loans.

https://nobarriers.uchicago.edu/

fuck you.

When I took my SIL on a college tour at Harvard, MIT and brown two years ago

http://www.thebestschools.org/blog/2012/12/10/20-colleges-providing-free-tuition/

https://college.harvard.edu/financial-aid

At least the ones i applied to (princeton and cornell)

WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE

I guess from the way they're funding it that it won't be much of a viable option for most other institutions, but they could, should and are which is brilliant. Hopefully some other high earning universities will follow suit.

I'm a socialist on this stuff though really... universal free education paid for by my taxes please.

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my daughter and I didn't know the bottom line totals until she got her award letter the weekend of Labor Day...the first semester of her Freshman year had already started mid August.

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It doesn't factor in cost of living, beyond stat income tax rate. A family of 3 earning 45k in Boston has the same Expected Family Contribution as a family of 3 in earning 45k in Bentonville, AR.

if you are under that income criteria
and do you have to maintain a certain gpa to stay in.

I got a good life man

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like is this I'll give anyone a million dollars if they can kick a 80 yrd field goal type gesture?

I got a good life man

obviously.

I wouldn't put it at the level of your analogy - Let's move the ball back about 60 yrds.

Still hard, but not quite so miraculous.

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her family MAYBE makes 25,000 a year and she lives in a 2 bdrm apt with 8 other people. poverty yo.

i love that kid and she's gonna be crazy successful.

and like the other dude said-- you still gotta be accepted.

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Usually certificate programs cost like 2-5 grand.

But Columbia will take anyone for the cert program. So it's a chance to put an Ivy League school on your resume. *shrugs*

My wife just got a resume from someone with a Columbia MBA for an Admin position. It's hard out there.

I visited there in 1999 and as a lower middle-class family my parents were both really concerned about the cost. We had met with some advisers and they broke it down that there would be essentially no tuition cost based on our situation (although obviously lodging and stuff in Palo Alto wasn't cheap, there would be federal loans for that).

I would have gone there but I didn't get in, so I had to pick between Cal, NYU and UCSB (went to UCSB).

And you will know MY JACKET IS GOLD when I lay my vengeance upon thee.

There are probably 8-12 schools in the country that can pull this off.

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I mean how much revenue does tuition all together generate annually?


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Stanford has like 15,000 students total.

Compare that to a school like University of Michigan. 44,000 students and an endowment of 9.5 billion

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