Harvard Law tuition to be tied to public service
Just months after Harvard unveiled a financial-aid overhaul for undergraduates that left other universities, including Yale, scrambling to keep pace, Harvard Law School announced last week what Harvard administrators pitched as a similar tuition shake-up.
Harvard will now forgive the third year of tuition for law students who commit to at least five years of public service after graduation. Officials in Cambridge billed the new aid plan as the first program to offer tuition incentives for students to enter public service, a less lucrative career track than private...
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By (Anonymous)
11:19p.m. on March 27, 2008
Typical YDN Harvard-centrism and Harvard-envy.
It should be noted (and should have been in this article) that the third-year tuition cut will operate in addition to Harvard's existing loan repayment program (LRAP). As Yale has a similar LRAP set up, I find Mark Templeton's suggestion that Harvard is catching up to what Yale has done to be rather disingenuous. Does Yale have a secret additional public service aid program? If not, give credit where credit is due and get over yourselves.
"And whereas Harvard’s tuition break comes with a binding five-year commitment under which the university takes its money back if the student drops out, Yale’s program allows people to enter and exit until the loans are paid off."
Loses its punch in light of the fact that Harvard Law's LRAP will continue to exist...