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“Stop Doing This BS ESG & DEI CRAP!” - Yale’s ‘Free Tuition’ Move EXPOSED As PR SCAM

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🗓️ 1 February 2026

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Yale announces free tuition for families earning under $200K, following similar moves by other Ivy League schools. Is this real progress or just PR as the value of college drops? This clip debates fairness, foreign students, merit, and whether higher education is losing relevance.

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0:00.0

Yale goes tuition-free for families making below $200,000 a year income.

0:07.3

Yale University is going tuition-free for undergraduates families, but incomes under $200,000,

0:11.9

following recent moves by peers, including Harvard University, to broaden access,

0:16.4

enhanced financial aid will ensure that students from such families will receive need-based scholarship

0:22.7

that meet or exceed the cost of tuition. Yale said in a statement Tuesday, the changes will

0:28.3

take effect into 2026, 2027 academic year. We'll also eliminate all expected costs for families

0:35.2

with typical assets and incomes below $100,000.

0:39.2

Brandon, your thoughts?

0:40.6

I mean, it's about time, to be honest.

0:43.1

Like, Yale has every benefit in the world's favor.

0:46.6

If I'm not mistaken, I don't believe they're required to pay taxes or certain portions of taxes.

0:51.0

Like, I'm from New Haven.

0:51.8

It takes up the entire city.

0:53.5

The entire city is decrepit because of Yale doesn't I'm from New Haven. It takes up the entire city. The entire city's

0:54.4

decrepit because of Yale doesn't have to pay taxes to it. So I mean, the crazy thing is

1:01.5

that the vast majority of their money doesn't even come from the tuition. So you would think

1:05.2

this would be something that would be floated a long time ago. But instead, well, you're

1:09.8

racking people that their parents make

1:11.7

$100,000 a year with $300,000 in debt. So, yeah, no, I think it's great. They still have problems

1:18.5

with the way that they take on people. You know, they try to match up the demos to be proportionate

1:23.2

with the demographics and society. So you get people of different races getting in with lower or

1:28.5

higher GPA requirements so i don't think that's great i think that could be like a a blindfold thing

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