Posts tagged university.

thescienceofreality:

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• Caltech
• Cambridge
• Carnegie Mellon
• Case Western Reserve
• Columbia
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• Gresham College
• Harvard
• IIT Delhi
• IIT Kanpur
• IIT Kharagpur
• IIT Madras
• Lund University
• Michigan
• Mises Institute
• MIT
• New School
• Notre Dame
• NYU
• Oxford
• Princeton
• Rice
• Stanford
• The City University of New York
• UC Berkeley
• UC Irvine
• UCLA
• University of California San Francisco
• University of Chicago
• University of Houston
• University of London
• University of New South Wales
• University of North Carolina
• University of Western Sydney
• Wesleyan University
• Yale

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Undocumented Student Friendly Colleges/Universities

lahoops:

und0c:

• Occidental, LMU, Santa Clara, Mt. St. Maryís., Pitzer
• California Colleges and Universities (UC Santa Cruz, UC Davis, UCLA, UC Merced, UC Berkeley; CSU Long Beach & San Francisco)
• Claremont McKenna College
• Scripps College
• Loyola Marymount University
• Meredith College 
• Mount St. Maryís College
• National Hispanic University
• Occidental College (2 per year-VERY competetive)
• Santa Clara University- (15-20 Hurtado scholarships specifically for undoc. That’s TOTAL, so 4 to 5 per year.)
• Fresno Pacific University
• Swarthmore University
• Temple University
• Eastern University
• Dominican University
• Community College of Philadelphia
• Villanova University
• Pomona (very competitive)
• Pitzer College (1 per year)
• Bryn Mawr College
• Harvard University
• University of Puget Sound
• Bryn Mawr College
• Dartmouth College
• North Western College
• George Mason University
• Whittier College in CA gives up to full tuition to high achieving students with their Greanleaf Scholarship-and it’s open to all students regardless of immigration status).
• Southern Catholic College
• Moravian College has a few undocumented students enrolled and normally they would fill out the CSS PROFILE.
• Manhattanville College in Purchase, NY
• Meredith College; Raleigh, NC; all women’s college).
• SUNY’s info on this issue: [ http://www.suny.edu/Student/paying_residence.cfm ]http://www.suny.edu/Student/paying_residence.cfm
• CUNY: [ http://web.cuny.edu/about/citizenship/info4undocumented/tuition.html ]http://web.c Marygrove College
• University of Michigan Dearborn
• University of Detroit-Mercy
• University of Pennsylvania 
• Wayne State University

-List compiled by Lorenzo Gamboa, Associate Director of Undergraduate Admissions, Santa

Clara University. May 2012.

Please add to the list! :D

“I’m interested in who profits from student debt. And finding where they live”

philosophy-of-praxis:

and then getting a decent sized spit and a fire pit.

—

—President Obama in North Carolina today on why Congress has to act to prevent interest rates on student loans from doubling (via barackobama)

Tell it!

(via sequinsandsideeye)

zombifuntime:

this is kind of what happens through college too.

Who needs feminism?

“I need feminism because too many people of my gender find sexual assault excusable on our campus”

“Poetic Stickup: Put the Financial Aid in the Bag” by Carvens Lissant

” ‘people shouldn’t be able to get into college just because they are black.’

yeah, because my college application was just a picture of my face.”