Brown Eliminates Tuition for Lower Income Students

Brown is following in the footsteps of Ivy League institutions Harvard, Yale Dartmouth and Stanford, by eliminating tuition for students whose parents earn less than 60k. I don’t know about you but this is awesome news!

This will definitely lessen the gap between students who are bright enough to get into Brown but don’t apply because of the daunting tuition, room and board fees which top out at $47,740.

I commend these institutions of higher learning for setting the tone for other schools, because hope that they too will follow. Graduating with a mortgage sized student loan is no fun.

Highlights of the article

• also plans to substitute grants for student loans in the financial aid packages of students whose families earned less than $100,000 a year.

• new program cuts reliance on loans for all students regardless of family income

• major step forward to ensure that our nation’s best students from lower- and middle-income families can attend Brown and graduate without the enormous burden of college debt.”

Do you know anyone that would benefit from this?

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