Harvard Opportunities for Students Affected by Katrina
Harvard College will admit 25 additional students from colleges and universities that will not reopen this term due to the storm into our Visiting Undergraduate Student Program for the Fall Semester. Applications will be processed on an expedited basis. No tuition will be charged. On-campus housing will be provided on a space-available basis and priority will be given to students rendered homeless by the storm. Students interested in being considered for the Visiting Undergraduate Program should send e-mail to vus@fas.harvard.edu. The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences will admit into the Special Student Program for the Fall Semester, 25 additional students from colleges and universities that will not reopen this term due to the storm. As in the case of Visiting Undergraduates, applications will be processed rapidly, and no tuition will be charged. Students interested in being considered by the Special Student Program should send e-mail to swood@fas.harvard.edu. Harvard Extension School, which has led Harvard's outreach efforts for more than a century, will allow enrollment in up to four of its fall courses to those students living within commuting distance who would normally be attending college in the flooded areas. For those students who are not within commuting distance of the campus, HES will make available enrollment in any of its 36 fall online courses. In either case, HES will waive the tuition for these students and require only the $50 registration fee. Scholarships for online courses are limited. Further, high school students from the flooded region who can come to the Boston area and live with relatives may enroll in Extension School courses that meet AP requirements, such as Introduction to Calculus, introductory science course, and introductory language courses. Students interested in these opportunities should send email to santos@hudce.harvard.edu. |
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| that's awesome to hear.
i know our school (texas a&m) took in 300 people and gave them beds, clothes, toys, money, and i'm sure many families are now getting them jobs. |
| Wayne State University in Detroit, where I work, is doing something similar. We're basically taking any student that was displaced and giving them everything they need to get back on their feet, including a full tuition waiver, lending money for books, housing, etc. They don't even have to pay admission fees, which is great-- getting all that junk processed is half the hassle of going to college! We even have our own student donation fund set up and all the student groups are doing things to raise money and donations. |
| That's awesome for all these schools to be doing this. The only thing that will suck is when the students who have 'upgraded' to Harvard are sent back to their original school (if they wanted to stay at an ivy league)... |
I don't think you actually get the boot-- Harvard's really only taking 25 people anyway. I know in a lot of universities it's easier to stay on if you're already admitted in a visiting program. However, the tuition will be the killer when that comes back to get them. I think Harvard tuition might be slightly more expensive then what they're used to!  |
| Yeah, I would imagine the tuition is a little bit more!
I know at UVA they are taking in students but, especially in their grad level programs, like the business school and law school, they are really competitive and have tiny classes and usually have 2000 applicants for 50 spots type of thing and I have a friend at the business school who says that many of those spots are being taken up by katrina victims, which in a way I am happy that they are finding a place to go to school, but on the other hand I feel bad for the students who otherwise would have gotten in. |
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