For the Record - Dec. 15, 2007

Harvard costs: An article in Tuesday’s Section A said that, as a result of a major restructuring of student financial aid at Harvard University, students from families earning less than $180,000 could pay less in tuition to attend Harvard than most flagship public universities, including UCLA. The story should have made clear that it was comparing total costs -- including room and board -- for attending the institutions, not just the cost of taking classes. Although the average total cost for a student to attend UCLA can be about $20,000 annually compared with $45,620 at Harvard, in the Harvard aid program a student from a family earning less than $180,000 will, on average, pay a total cost of 10% of that family’s income.