Newly expanded financial aid will cover tuition costs for admitted students from 80 percent of U.S. families.

  • ⓝⓞ🅞🅝🅔@lemmy.ca
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    3 days ago

    Still incredible, I think. Consider all the resources of various institutions and corporations which are not used in such a way. If only more did similar.

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      3 days ago

      Uh, yeah. That’s what marketing is. Where do you think undergrads will be trying to go now? If a top student had to pick between CalTech, MIT, and Harvard, and MIT is tuition free, it’s a no brainer.

      I’m not saying it’s bad, I’m just pointing out the masturbatory nature of MIT’s announcement given their endowment and the peanuts it will cost them.