TIME
Kentucky's Berea College does not charge any of its students tuition.
For high school seniors, May 1 was D-Day. Decision Day. After weeks of weighing the pros and cons, they had until the last mail pickup on Friday to postmark a deposit to reserve a spot in next year's freshman class.
In this spring of economic certainty, many nationally known schools are sweating over whether they'll enroll, or "yield," enough students to fill the class — an outcome officials won't know for sure until all the deposits are tallied over the coming weeks.
But in a tiny corner of Kentucky, one little college is doing just fine. Berea College is on track to yield 78% of the students it accepted this year — and thereby beat Harvard's 2008 haul. The school's secret? Free tuition. More>>
