Stanford Policy for Middle Income Parents - Free if you're under $60,000

Are you sunk if your parents make $60,000-$100,000? My dad only made $20,000 on one income in the mid 1970s, which was about half the cost of a house or 10 times what a cheap car cost. With 7 kids, we managed to get into MIT and Stanford for pretty much $1,000 for the first kid for the first year, with annual cost of something like $6,000, which would be 1/3 that salary. They paid no contribution after that. Now $100,000 won't buy you any houses in Seattle, and will only buy you maybe 6 new cars.

Colleges are now bending over to make a deal if you're considering sending your kids to the "cheap" state college. Here's Stanford's deal according to their viewbook:

Stanford costs in 2009: Cost $37,380 tuition, $11,463 room and board, $3,385 personal, $1,485 books and supplies, orientation fee $438 Campus Health Service fee $501, total $53,652, or half of what a $100,000 family makes before taxes are taken out.

• Parents earning under $60,000 will not have to contribute anything
• $60-$100,00 will pay somewhere between $0 and cost of room and board. Tuition will cover tuition
• I guess if you make over $200,000 you'll have to pay a lot.
• Student expected to pay 5% of savings anually, contribute $4,500 in scholarships, summer or academic year earnings, or student loans. So if your kid has saved up $1000 in birthday money for a bike, they won't take it all.

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California's higher-education debacle -- latimes.com

California's higher-education debacle -- latimes.com

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Shangai ranking of best universities 2009

Shangai ranking of best universities 2009 from

Why Brown is number 69 is just crazy, it's rated the same as BU which isn't even Ivy League, and much, much harder to get into. University of Washington is just a few notches down from Cornell.

1 Harvard 2 Stanford 3 UC Berkeley 5 MIT 6 CalTech 7 Columbia 8 Princeton 9 Chicago 10 Oxford 11 Yale 12 Cornell 13 UCLA 14 UCSD 15 U Pennsylvania 16 **U Dub** ..... 69 **Brown???** 74 Boston University

This is the 2009 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) list of the top 100 universities in the world.

Contents 1 Top 100[1] 2 Regional rankings (top 10) 2.1 Asia & Australia 2.2 Europe 2.3 North America 3 References

[edit] Top 100^[1]

Rank	University	Country
1	Harvard University	United States
2	Stanford University	United States
3	University of California, Berkeley	United States
4	Cambridge University	United Kingdom
5	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	United States
6	California Institute of Technology	United States
7	Columbia University	United States
8	Princeton University	United States
9	Chicago University	United States
10	Oxford University	United Kingdom
11	Yale University	United States
12	Cornell University	United States
13	University of California, Los Angeles	United States
14	University of California, San Diego	United States
15	University of Pennsylvania	United States
16	University of Washington	United States
17	University of Wisconsin, Madison	United States
18	University of California	United States
19	Johns Hopkins University	United States
20	Tokyo University	Japan
21	University College London	United Kingdom
22	University of Michigan - Ann Arbor	United States
23	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich	Switzerland
24	Kyoto University	Japan
25	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	United States
26	Imperial College London	United Kingdom
27	Toronto University	Canada
28	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	United States
29	Washington University in St. Louis	United States
30	Northwestern University	United States
31	Duke University	United States
32	New York University	United States
32	Rockefeller University	United States
34	University of Colorado at Boulder	United States
35	University of California, Santa Barbara	United States
36	British Columbia University	Canada
37	University of Maryland, College Park	United States
38	University of Texas at Austin	United States
39	North Carolina University, Chapel Hill	United States
40	Paris 06 – Pierre and Marie Curie University	France
41	Manchester University	United Kingdom
41	Vanderbilt University	United States
43	Copenhagen University	Denmark
43	Paris 11 – Paris-Sud University	France
45	Pennsylvania State University	United States
46	California, Irvine	United States
46	Southern California	United States
48	Texas Southwestern Medical Center University	United States
49	California University, Davis	United States
50	Karolinska Institute	Sweden
50	Pittsburgh University	United States
52	Utrecht University	Netherlands
53	Edinburgh University	United Kingdom
54	Zurich University	Switzerland
55	Rutgers University, New Brunswick	United States
55	Munich University	Germany
57	Munich Technical University	Germany
58	Florida University	United States
59	Carnegie Mellon University	United States
59	Australian National University (Canberra)	Australia
61	Bristol University	United Kingdom
62	Ohio State University	United States
63	Heidelberg University	Germany
64	Jerusalem Hebrew University	Israel
65	London University – King's College	United Kingdom
65	McGill University	Canada
65	Purdue University	United States
65	Oslo University	Norway
69	Brown University	United States
70	Paris École Normale Superieure	France
71	Osaka University	Japan
72	Leiden University	Netherlands
72	Helsinki University	Finland
74	Boston University	United States
75	Melbourne University	Australia
76	Uppsala University	Sweden
77	Moscow State University	Russia
77	University of Arizona	United States
77	Rochester University	United States
80	Utah University	United States
81	Sheffield University	United Kingdom
82	Nagoya University	Japan
83	Nottingham University	United Kingdom
84	Tohoku University	Japan
85	Basel University	Switzerland
86	Michigan State University	United States
87	Case Western Reserve University	United States
88	Stockholm University	Sweden
88	Texas A&M University	United States
90	Göttingen University	Germany
91	McMaster University	Canada
91	Virginia University	United States
93	Indiana University Bloomington	United States
94	Arizona State University, Tempe	United States
94	Birmingham University	United Kingdom
94	Sydney University	Australia
97	Aarhus University	Denmark
98	Bonn University	Germany
99	Rice University	United States
100	Emory University	United States

[edit] Regional rankings (top 10)

[edit] Asia & Australia

Rank	Rank (world)	University	Country
1	20	Tokyo University	Japan
2	24	Kyoto University	Japan
3	59	Australian National University (Canberra)	Australia
4	64	Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Israel
5	71	Osaka University	Japan
6	75	Melbourne University	Australia
7	82	Nagoya University	Japan
8	84	Tohoku University	Japan
9	94	Sydney University	Australia

[edit] Europe

Rank	Rank (world)	University	Country
1	4	Cambridge University	United Kingdom
2	10	Oxford University	United Kingdom
3	21	London University – University College	United Kingdom
4	23	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich	Switzerland
5	26	London Imperial College	United Kingdom
6	40	Paris 06 – Pierre and Marie Curie University	France
7	41	Manchester University	United Kingdom
8	43	Copenhagen University	Denmark
8	43	Paris 11 – Paris-Sud University	France
10	50	Karolinska Institute	Sweden

[edit] North America

Rank	Rank (world)	University	Country
1	1	Harvard University	United States
2	2	Stanford University	United States
3	3	California University, Berkeley	United States
4	5	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	United States
5	6	California Institute of Technology	United States
6	7	Columbia University (New York City)	United States
7	8	Princeton University	United States
8	9	Chicago University	United States
9	11	Yale University	United States
10	12	Cornell University	United States

[edit] References

1. ^ http://www.arwu.org/ARWU2009.jsp