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Re:MIT Gets $140M Pledge from Anonymous Donor by jfv on Wednesday June 07, 2017 @11:46PM (#14511776)
Hmm, don't think I understand your first argument. If 72% of MIT undergraduates graduate without loan debt, this almost certainly includes all of the students (29%) coming from the top 5%.

There are certainly people that are dissuaded from MIT for cost reasons, and money could be used to solve that problem.

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Re:MIT Gets $140M Pledge from Anonymous Donor by uxp100 on Thursday June 08, 2017 @12:34AM (#14511933)
No, that doesn't follow. Students coming from the top 5% can have loan debt. The top 5% includes many (mostly?) families that could not afford to pay out of pocket for MIT, and even those that could may choose not to.
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