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> Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but the waivers in question are aimed at students who receive tuition discounts due to working in a full-time capacity. Like a professor gets a tuition discount for their daughter who attends the school, or the admissions accountant gets a discount to attend the MBA program. Yes to the first sentence - I don't think the second sentence follows. When I was a graduate student, I was a teaching assistant, and I was paid to be a teaching assistant and received a tuition waiver. I was required to either teach a class or do funded research in order to get a tuition waiver, and presumably the money for that comes out of either the teaching salary budget or the research funding. I did also get a small amount of pay (a stipend) on top of the tuition waiver, basically enough to pay for housing and meals. I was employed by the school, I got a W-2 for that money, etc. So I was working full-time for the school. Having been accepted to the graduate program, I then became an employee of the university. I didn't complete my degree, and I've thought about going back to finish it off, but unless I commit to spending a full semester there and apply for and receive a teaching or research assistantship, I'm paying sticker price for the degree program, no financial aid, nothing. That's a huge amount of money, even for someone who's now making a nice big-city tech salary. (And for the particular degree program, there's a limit on how many semesters an individual can be a funded teaching assistant or research assistant, and I only have one semester of that left.) > On the other hand, we have a hefty amount of debt on our hands, and in order to dig ourselves out of it, the funds will have to come from _somewhere_. In an effort to "see randomness", this is what I'm hoping is the reason for the change. I think it's basically that but a bit simpler - it's a regulation that's phrased in the way of being a tax waiver for people doing a thing, and the folks trying to do tax reform are just trying to lower the number of those regulations. |