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...UniThrive, created by Joshua Kushner ’08, is a non-profit organization that utilizes peer-to-peer lending to bridge the gap between undergraduates of Harvard and its alumni by helping students to pay their tuition. [SEE CLARIFICATION...
...worth the cost: Studies have demonstrated that access to primary care improves health, allowing doctors to practice preventative medicine, monitor chronic diseases, and control rising health care costs. If we intend to actually realize the benefits of primary care, however, we must take active steps—whether through tuition breaks, tax subsidies, or pay scale changes—to encourage medical students to enter primary care...
...enough to solve this lack of primary care physicians. State and federal governments, in conjunction with medical schools, must create a system of tax breaks and subsidies—perhaps along the lines of the Harvard Law School’s recent decision to waive third-year tuition for students who pledge to work in public service for five years—to attract more medical students to the field of primary care. Subsidies for primary care residencies, altering the Medicare pay scale, and creating tax breaks for those who practice primary care could further draw students into primary care...
...unquestionably a good thing—especially given that this is increased diversity that does not come at the cost of quality of applicants. Additionally, Harvard’s recent increase in financial aid to students of low- and middle-income backgrounds has demonstrably made Harvard’s tuition costs more accessible to Harvard families. In the admissions game, the increased perception of financial feasibility is paramount in encouraging students to apply, and the lengthened recruitment period certainly made publicizing this to students quite successful. Another change in this year’s admissions game is that 110 fewer...
...We’re even introduced to poor Mexican-American college students Marta and David (played by America Ferrera of “Ugly Betty” fame and Jesse Garcia from “Quinceaña”) who resort to taking illegals across the border for tuition money. It’s a credit to the filmmakers that the movie’s didacticism doesn’t feel unbearably contrived while it’s happening. The depiction of Mexican life, on both sides of the border, is rich and spirited, saving the movie from...