How can low-income students attend Ivy League colleges for free?
How can low-income students attend Ivy League colleges for free? For decades, low- and middle-income families have increasingly found themselves priced out of attending top private universities. Higher education has far outpaced general inflation — 5.94 percent vs. 2.99 percent from 1989 through 2005 [source: Sopelsa]. Ivy League schools like Harvard, Columbia, Princeton and Brown now cost in the area of $50,000 a year including tuition and room and board. The Ivy League includes eight schools: Brown University (Providence, R.I.), Columbia University (New York, N.Y.), Cornell University (Ithaca, N.Y.), Dartmouth College (Hanover, N.H.), Harvard University (Cambridge, Mass.), Princeton University (Princeton, N.J.), University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pa.) and Yale University (New Haven, Conn.). A four-year degree at one of these elite schools runs a couple hundr
