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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Dean Manning of Harvard Law School put out a press release 8 months ago that Harvard Law School will start offering merit scholarships of up to 100% of tuition for the most qualified applicants. So maybe the top schools are changing their minds on merit aid.[/quote]

Well, I know dear John and gave it three minutes of searching but can’t find what you are referencing. It’s irrelevant, anyhow, because student loan policies are set by a Harvard Law student committee, not John.  So like any good politician John can say whatever he likes and it’s not happening.   Harvard, now at a whopping $107k a year, does not give merit aid because it doesn’t need to. Financial aid, to be distinguished from merit, is also tightly controlled.  Also, if John actually said that, you should know you can drive a truck through through what “most qualified” means. Look at this for example. https://hls.harvard.edu/sfs/financial-aid/financial-aid-policy/parent-resources/#general-requirements.   HLS subtracts from that $107k figure the student’s earnings, the student’s assets, then the parents’ assets in full up to age 25 (parents contributions aren’t phased totally out until age 29). My DD woujd like to follow in my footsteps. After sending three full-pay kids to college, and taking care of two seniors with dementia, and heading towards retirement we cannot afford $330k in after tax dollars, which means making probably $500k. The only schools offering real merit are the lesser known which are trying to climb the USNWR ladder. They will pay for spectacular GPAs and LSATs. Thst is the hard truth. So she’s applying only to those where she has a chance of merit based upon her test scores. [/quote]

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