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Harvard is offering free tuition for students that have a family
income below $40,000. See article:
http://adm-is.fas.harvard.edu/FAO/index.htm

Subject: Harvard's Tuition Announcement

If you know anyone/family earning less than $40K with a brilliant
child near ready for college, please pass this along. Harvard's
Tuition
Announcement Highlights Failure of Prestigious Universities to Enroll
Low-Income Students March 1, 2004: Harvard University announced over
the
weekend that from now on undergraduate students from low-income
families
will pay no tuition. In making the announcement, Harvard's president
Lawrence H. Summers said, "When only 10 percent of the students in
elite
higher education come from families in lower half the income
distribution,
we are not doing enough. We are not doing enough in bringing elite
higher
education to the lower half of the income distribution."

This initiative puts severe pressure on other well-endowed colleges and
universities to adopt similar measures. Some commentators believe that
Harvard's announcement was made in response to Princeton University's
decision six years ago to eliminate all tuition charges for families
earning less than $40,000 (adjusted annually to take inflation into
account) and its subsequent decision three years later to substitute
all
student loans with outright grants.

The Harvard announcement indicates that the Princeton plan has had
some
success in drawing to Princeton some of the high-achieving, low-income
students who typically went to Harvard.


Each year The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education gathers figures
from
the U.S. Department of Education relating to the percentage of students
at
the nation's leading colleges and universities who receive federal
financial assistance under the Pell Grant program for low-income
students.
These figures provide a good measure of the institution's relative
success
in enrolling students from the bottom economic sector of the nation's
families.

In the file attachment, on page 2, there are current figures for the
nation's academically highest-rated universities ranked according to
the
highest percentage of students receiving Pell Grants.

The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, 200 W. 57th Street, New
York,
NY 10019, tel: 212 399-1084

That's good. Usually Caribbean kids get the free tuition anyway because the exchange rate puts us at the bottom of the yearly income pool. But I am glad to see that more folks will be able to benefit now!

thats nice

real good