<p>well lowering tuition for middle-class students, gives qualified applicants more incentive to attend. With the way the economy is and how little a dollar goes nowadays, many people really just can’t afford it. Even being upper-middle class, I don’t see where 80-100k a year is enough to support a family and send your children to schools like Harvard. Harvard may be trying to lure applications in, to get an even lower “acceptance rate” than the current one.</p>