Harvard's announcement on Dec. 10th that it will provide financial aid to families making as much as $180,000 per year, echoed today by Yale, has been greeted with nearly universal acclaim. (The only detractors seem to be those who didn't get in.) The move sets a new standard for all private universities to include students of all economic backgrounds.
But while private colleges pile on to the idea of expanded scholarships and grants, state schools increasingly exclude students...
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