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I highly value my college experience, but then again I was able to avoid student loans by becoming a staff member and getting essentially a full scholarship plu
by dasil003 11y ago
I highly value my college experience, but then again I was able to avoid student loans by becoming a staff member and getting essentially a full scholarship plus health care (since there was no bachelors degree applicable for a web development job back then).
I can't help but notice that the way student loans are handed out like candy to 18 year-olds who do not yet have the education and experience to understand the implication of those loan burdens is a pretty slimy modus operandi. It just doesn't jive with the high-minded ideals that university's tout publicly.
- superuser2 11y ago>It just doesn't jive with the high-minded ideals that university's tout publicly. Good private schools have excellent financial aid for students whose parents can't pay, and the high-minded ideals were brought to "the people" in the form of heavily taxpayer-subsidized state universities for much of the twentieth century. These institutions aren't going to abandon their values, though the state subsidies that made it possible without debt are long-gone.
- zaccus 11y agoThe state subsidies are still there, what has changed is the cost of attendance. Universities are willingly complicit in overselling the benefits and downplaying the cost of higher education to teenagers for whom other options might be more appropriate. That is dishonest to say the absolute least, and juxtaposed with these institutions' "values" is quite hypocritical. This applies to for-profit private schools, sure, but these days it applies to our hallowed state schools as well.