For some families, Harvard University just got a little bit cheaper. The Ivy League institute located in Cambridge, Massachusetts—which costs about $83,000 annually in 2024—recently announced tuition will be free for families whose income is below $200,000 per year. If you’re a family whose household income is less than $100,00, the venerated institution will basically pay for everything. And I do mean everything: tuition, housing, fees, travel costs, event and activity fees– and if you need some cold weather gear to adjust to the Boston winters, Harvard is covering that, too. They’ll even give you a $2,000 start-up grant to get you situated; all you have to do is get in.

  • Adm_Drummer@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    Okay, so since you don’t recognise that people of colour are a thing outside of America…

    Is it not a DEI program to provide Diverse, Equitable and Inclusive school admissions to the poor.

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      16 hours ago

      They mean the term “people of colour” is BS.

      And I agree. “Coloured people” is offensive but “people of colour” isn’t?

      I roll my eyes so hard I see my brain every time I hear it.

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      16 hours ago

      that people of colour are a thing outside of America

      They’re not a thing anywhere. It’s pseudoscience based on America’s unusual history.

      Is it not a DEI program to provide Diverse, Equitable and Inclusive school admissions to the poor.

      Not sure what point this is making. Diversity and inclusion of values, or viewpoints, say, is a decent and valuable goal. But what it means in America is diversity of skin color. Which is only interesting if one is a racist (very literally) - as it seems many American progressives are, deep down. I’m talking about the racism of low expectations - the belief that poor little dark-skinned people can’t make it on their own (despite all the evidence) and need special treatment.

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        15 hours ago

        People of colour aren’t a thing anywhere? Damn, gotta inform like… 6.5 billion people they don’t exist.

        Do you fail to see how people of certain socioeconomic backgrounds and racial backgrounds may have different values and viewpoints thus making them worthy of inclusion by virtue of having different values and viewpoints?

        Like… I feel like you’re focused on the racial background of this while ignoring the fact that -to paraphrase you- Poor little Mayo kids will also benefit from DEI practices that admit people based on personal experience over “qualification”.

        Isn’t part of the American dream that anyone, of any make and model can find opportunity if they talk to the right person?

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          14 hours ago

          Damn, gotta inform like… 6.5 billion people they don’t exist.

          You are making my point for me. 6.5 billion people don’t care what you, a person of European ancestry with a repressed superiority complex, think about them. Having traveled in all four corners of the world, I can tell you that you are totally out of touch.