MIT & Harvard Looking for Low Income Students

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FYI- Pass it On...

Verizon is looking for students who are 2004 graduates of Historically
Black
Colleges and Universities (HBCU). If you know of someone grad uating
from a
HBCU this year with a degree in Engineering, Computer Science and
Technology, Information Technology, General Business, Finance or
Marketing,
please have them forward their resume to:
[e-mail] to be considered for career opportunities
within Verizon.

The Women's Technology Program at MIT is a 4-week summer residence
program
to introduce high school girls to electrical engineering and computer
science. If you know a girl who is currently a high school junior with
demonstrated math and science ability and an interest in finding out
about
EECS, please encourage her to visit our website for more information
and for
an application form (applications are due Feb 3, 2005)
http://www.mit.edu
Our classes are taught in a supportive environment by a staff of women
MIT
PhD candidates and undergraduates.The full-time academic program
includes
hands-on experiments and team-based projects in computer science, ele
ctrical engineering, an mathematics . No prior experience in computer
programming, physics, or electrical engineering is expected, but
applicants
typically have strong academic records, especially in math and science.

HARVARD 'S TUITION ANNOUNCEMENT - Harvard is offering free tuition for
students that have a family income below $40,000. If you are a mentor
or
have nieces and nephews who might be interested, please give them this
information. If you know any one/family earning less than $40K with a
brilliant child near ready for college, please pass this along.
Harvard's
Tuition Announcement Highlights Failure of Prestigious Universities to
Enroll Low-Income Students March 1, 2004, Harvard University announced
over
the weekend that from now on undergraduate students from low-income
families
will pay no tuition. In making the announcement, Harvard's president
Lawrence H. Summers said, "When only 10 percent of the students in
Elite
high er education come from families in lower half the income
distribution,
we are not doing enough. We are not doing enough in bringing elite
higher
education to the lower half of the income distribution." If you know of
a
family earning less than $40,000 a year with an honor student
graduating
from high school soon, Harvard University wants to pay the tuition. The
prestigious university recently announced that from now on
undergraduate
students from low-income families can go to Harvard for free...no
tuition
and no student loans! To find out more about Harvard offering free
tuition
for families making less than $40,000 a year visit Harvard's financial
aid
web site at:
http://adm-is.fas.harvard.edu/FAO/index.htm or call the school's
financial
aid office at [phone].

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