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Yale School of Music will waive fees - FREE tuition at
YALE SCHOOL OF MUSIC BY JESSICA MARSDEN Staff Reporter - Yale Daily News
Published Wednesday, November 2, 2005
http://www.yaledailynews.com/article.asp?AID=30629

Beginning next year, students at the Yale School of Music
will no longer have to pay tuition, due to a recent $100
million anonymous donation. The donation -- the largest
single contribution in the school's history -- will waive
tuition for all students starting next fall and will allow the
institution to expand several other programs. Students
said they were excited about the changes made possible
by the gift, which was announced last Friday in an e-mail
from Acting Dean Thomas Duffy to members of the
campus music community.

"This donor has allowed us to accelerate a plan that will
make a big impact on our ability to attract the best and
brightest," Duffy said. Currently, tuition for the music
school is $23,750, and graduates from the program often
leave school with $30,000 to $40,000 in debt, Duffy said. While students may still accrue debt from living expenses during their time at the Music School, he said the school will work toward providing a living stipend in addition to the tuition waiver. Yale President Richard Levin said the tuition waiver will be unique among non-doctoral graduate programs." The use of the first money to come in would be to eliminate tuition for all students," he said. "We have that policy in the Ph.D.
programs, but this is the first of the professional schools."

The Curtis Institute in Philadelphia is the only other
graduate music program to guarantee a tuition waiver to
every student, Matthew Barnson MUS '07 said. Barnson
said he left another graduate school that offered him a
living stipend to attend Yale's program, even though he
had to accept some debt. "I don't know a single other
music school in the country, perhaps the world, that's
going to have an endowment like this," he said. "It's going
to be very, very tough for anybody to turn it down." Ezra
Laderman, a former dean of the music school, said the
donation will make it easier for Yale to attract top students
to its programs.

While Yale has consistently ranked as one of the top five
or six music schools, peer institutions offered more
competitive financial aid packages, Laderman said. "We
know we've lost many students because we couldn't
compete with the financial aid offered by schools like
Juilliard," he said. But Jenny Lee '06 said she thinks the
size of the gift is inappropriate, because there are
pressing humanitarian needs around the world. The
earthquake in India and Pakistan last month may be the
largest crisis in the world, she said, and some of the
money could have been better spent helping the disaster
victims. "[The anonymous donor] could have given $20
million to the School of Music and still helped a lot of
students with their tuition while giving $80 million to other
causes," Lee said. The gift may allow Yale's Music School
to expand its exchange programs with other schools, and
more undergraduates may be able to study with Music
School professors, Duffy said. In the past, applicants
accepted to Yale have often been denied private
instruction from School of Music faculty, Duffy said,
because the Music School has been forced to focus
primarily on its graduate students. "If music is truly that
important a part of their life, they often choose to go
elsewhere," Duffy said. "I wonder if we can't through the
beneficence of this donor find a situation where we can
reconsider the exclusivity of the School of Music faculty."
Duffy said further details of the new programs made
possible by the donation will be announced once a
permanent dean is named to replace Robert Blocker, who
left this summer.