Boston college has a policy that employees' kids can attend for free, as long as they are accepted. This janitor has five kids, all of whom got in, saving nearly $700k in tuition.ohmyashleyy t1_iyozyc3 wrote
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It’s not free. My mom worked for UMass for 40 years. When I graduated HS, it was the same benefit as the John and Abigail Adam’s scholarship based off the MCAS - free tuition, but when I went to UMass Amherst, tuition was $1700/yr. Academic fees were an additional 15k, plus room and board on top of that. Only the $1700 was covered. My mom didn’t even bother with the paperwork and I just took my MCAS scholarship. She used it for my brother and sister though.
I think they’ve since adjusted how tuition and fees work (I believe tuition used to be frozen, hence the high fees) so maybe it’s a better deal than 15 years ago, but not free.
Snafu55 t1_iyp2uht wrote
You pay per credit for tuition now (excluding fees) but they will cover you and your dependents taking classes. I know because I used to help process the tuition waivers for one of the umass’s for full time employees. Considering tuition tends to be above 15k in state now. Spouses of a full time worker will only get half off per credit though (I’m not sure if there’s a credit limit per semester though). At the start of each semester so many employees would send over their tuition waivers for them or their kids. Quite a lot of full time employees used it to get online degrees.
Of course room and board and fees are not a part of that. But it was still a wonderful deal for full time staff and families.
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