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Undergraduates with family income below $200k will be tuition-free at MIT

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581 points gnabgib | 1 comments | 20 Nov 24 16:59 UTC | HN request time: 0.208s | source
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kevinventullo ◴[20 Nov 24 17:34 UTC] No.42196288[source]▶
The article claims 80% of American households meet this threshold. I wonder what % of their incoming class (say restricted to Americans) meets this threshold.
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1. chews ◴[20 Nov 24 17:45 UTC] No.42196403[source]▶
That's a great question, I'd bet it's fair to say that 80% of their applicants would not qualify, and yet it opens the door for some really deserving humans. (Not being able to afford it is why I didn't go to MIT, I also wasn't accepted at Cal, yet UCLA (and all of the UC system for that matter) was under 4,000 a year and that's what my folks and I could afford so that's where I studied.)