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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: 0.221s | source
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alsetmusic ◴[20 Nov 24 17:23 UTC] No.42196168[source]▶
Awesome. Now let’s lower the bar further and do it everywhere. And then let’s keep doing more until students can pay their tuition with a summer job, like they could when our elders went to school.

I’ll hold off on asking for higher education to be free, as the culture still pushes back on that. But a return to the former model would be most welcome.

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mixmastamyk ◴[20 Nov 24 17:47 UTC] No.42196423[source]▶
Won’t happen as long as the govt is giving out free loans, which is the driver of increasing tuition prices.
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1. tzs ◴[20 Nov 24 21:14 UTC] No.42198188[source]▶
I tried to check if that was true, but couldn't find much historical tuition data online. What little I did find showed that tuition adjusted for inflation has been increasing fairly steadily for over 100 years, and I didn't really see any change in the rates between before government loans and after.

Maybe if I had found data for a wide range of schools instead of just a couple of hard to get into schools there would have been a more noticeable effect.