Questions for the Dean?

DwightEisenhower
Fri, 30 Sep 2011 21:14:09 +0000

BTW: I have it on good authority that the percentage of income that will be asked of Harvard families in the $150,00 to $180,000 income bracket will range from 10% to 16.5%. The exact figure is dependent on assets. That is a significant increase from the previous 10% that Harvard had asked for.



Again, if that 6.5% margin is going toward getting rid of a 10% margin for low income families, I call that a good policy. But a better policy would be helping people at both ends, for sure. Given the fact that more people fall into the 150k to 180k bracket than the 60k to 65k bracket (even if they didn’t, you’d still have a net income), the cuts at the top are paying for far more than the widening of the bottom. You can only really know what Harvard is paying for with this if you can examine the entire budget.

I’m not advocating screwing over the better off but really, it is tremendously harder for a 65k income to pay an extra 6500 than it is for a 165k income to pay 10725. If Harvard’s gonna give out free money, I’d give it to the former.