MIT Increases Financial Aid: Students from Families with Household Incomes Below $200K Can Attend Tuition Free


MIT is Now More Affordable for Students from 80% of U.S. Households

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Happy December! It is the last month of the year and soon time to bid farewell to 2024. December is also the month for so many religious and cultural holidays: Christmas, Hannukah, Kwanzaa, New Year's Eve, Winter Solstice, to name a few. Did I miss any that you celebrate? Please email me and let me know.

Well, for prospective college students who dream of going to MIT but can't afford it, MIT has given them an extra reason to celebrate this holiday season.

MIT recently announced that students from families with household incomes below $200,000 will now be able to attend MIT tuition free starting in fall 2025. In the same vein, students from families with household incomes below $100,000 will be able to attend MIT on a full ride with their full cost of attendance taken care off. That means not only will tuition, room, board, and fees be covered, but also they will receive an allowance for books and personal expenses!

MIT's financial aid now rivals those of its fellow elite schools such as its neighbor, Harvard. Therefore, if you have a student who aspires to attend MIT, the question is no longer if you can afford it but whether you can get in. That is where we come in.

In CFF College Fully Funded®, our college admissions coaching program, we work with our students to help them find, apply, and secure admission into U.S. colleges with full funding so as to avoid debt, including selective schools like MIT. We work with our students to prepare compelling application packets that make them simply irresistible to college admission committees - everything from their Common App applications, to their college essays, to their financial aid applications. Past students for example have secured admission with full funding at elite schools like Harvard, Cornell, RIT, etc.

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I hope you have a good week and Happy Holidays in advance!

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National Center for Higher Education Access

Award-winning academic and tenured professor

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