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

(news.mit.edu)
737 points gnabgib | 1 comments | 20 Nov 24 16:59 UTC | HN request time: 0.201s | source
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tossandthrow ◴[21 Nov 24 10:29 UTC] No.42202851[source]▶
It seems insane that your personal choices are bound to your family situation- especially when you are an adult.

Just the idea that parents in the US are expected to pay for their children's education is so wrong.

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oh_fiddlesticks ◴[21 Nov 24 10:42 UTC] No.42202948[source]▶
I sort of understand where you're coming from, but on the other hand, if parents aren't to be expected to provide for the children they (most commonly) decided to give life to, then who in your view should bear the financial cost of that decision?
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1. tossandthrow ◴[21 Nov 24 11:05 UTC] No.42203080[source]▶
It should be a public good as an educated populous is a public benefit.

This is about MIT, which along with their Ivy League peers probably represent symbolism and no more than a dent into the total number of education programmes carried out in the US.

But again, hearing advisors on personal finance talking about saving for your kids education as a high priority is so insane for me and is completely contrary to what I would expect from a meritocratic society (which I know the US aspires to be).