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Interesting how something that was intended to weed out bad colleges ended up as a tool to sell college on yet more people, with useless individual bar graphs f
by revelation 11y ago
Interesting how something that was intended to weed out bad colleges ended up as a tool to sell college on yet more people, with useless individual bar graphs for "comparing" schools.
It's like putting warning labels on cigarettes, you would be hard pressed to find any individual that is not either in favor or indifferent to doing that, yet this kind of initiative consistently fails to become law or ends up being neutered like this program.
- droithomme 11y agoYes, that is interesting. I found it also quite interesting that when you look at their link to yearly cost to attend numbers, such as on the list "23 four-year schools with low costs that lead to high incomes" (http://www.ed.gov/blog/2015/09/schools-with-low-costs-and-high-incomes/ http://www.ed.gov/blog/2015/09/schools-with-low-costs-and-hi...) they are given as net costs, for the lowest income students only, and after deducting both federal grants and loans. The loans have to be repaid so not including those in the "cost" of college is strange.