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

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589 points gnabgib | 1 comments | 20 Nov 24 16:59 UTC | HN request time: 0.216s | 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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1. Nifty3929 ◴[20 Nov 24 23:13 UTC] No.42199123[source]▶
In the former model, which I also would love to back to, college was cheap because the government didn't keep inflating the price with huge loans, coupled with every adult in range telling kids that the HAVE to go to college and the more prestigious the better.

Get rid of government loans, bring us back to how universities used to operate, and education will once again be something you can pay for with a summer job.

All we're doing with these government loans is transferring the wealth of society to the universities.