<p>You missed the point. The performance of PhD students is not measured in terms of grades. </p>
<p>It is widely acknowledged that graduate courses are graded much more leniently than undergraduate courses, with a B in a grad course corresponding to a C-D in an undergraduate course.</p>
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<p>Wrote a long post but did not want to spend time bickering. Just look at the highlighted part. Thats whould explain why my points are valid.</p>
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<p>Actually its not. At undergraduate level, Harvard is one of only 6 schools in the US (along with MIT, Dartmouth, Yale, Princeton, and Amherst) who are both need-blind for admissions decisions and who guarantee to meet full financial need for all admitted students including international. I know of no applicant whose family who had to turn down Harvard because they couldn’t afford to accept the offer (though I know of those who had the money but did not wish to pay). I know that MIT accepted an international student last year whose total family income for 2009 was Five US Dollars. MIT ensured that he could afford to attend MIT. Faulting any of the 6 is unfair.</p>
<p>At graduate level it varies hugely from department to department. Electrical Engineers pursuing graduate degrees usually have their education costs completely covered. Students of French Poetry have much more difficulty.</p>
<p>^ Its actually sarcasm. However an issue might arise when you have to fund a student body that is 80% international most who would require full financial aid even i f you make a purely based merit process. </p>
<p>yes science PhDs are usually funded and even to a lesser extent most humanities. Although humanities PhDs are very long lol</p>