Hitch-hiking to Harvard?

xrCalico23
Fri, 25 Feb 2011 16:36:18 +0000

I’m not sure what kind of expenses besides airfare/train travel you’re currently expecting, but there is really nothing you need to pay for once you arrive on campus.

Also, the Admitted Student Weekend is not mandatory in any way, so if you feel that the cost is not worth the trip, then by all means make the decision that is the best for your situation. I wasn’t able to visit most of the schools I was admitted to as a high school senior, even the ones I was seriously considering attending, because of cost issues and conflicts with other personal commitments.

If travel expenses will be a serious issue for your family, then it will show through your financial aid documentations, and you will be offered means to request refund/subsidy. In that case, there will be information about it right in your acceptance letter packet. If not, then it probably means that there were students with more need than you who were better qualified for the travel funds, unfortunately.



I don’t know about you, but my family don’t got dat kinda dough… would I just be SOL because i’m from far away and not made of money?



LOL :), I don’t know what you’re expecting, but Harvard students have to travel from all over the world and I don’t know many who are “made of money”! Indiana is really not that far from Cambridge, considering how far a lot of other people have to travel.