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My alma mater has climbed up to nearly 70k/year as of this year... It's completely nuts, but if you didn't get that chopped down by financial aid grants and ha
by douche 10y ago
My alma mater has climbed up to nearly 70k/year as of this year... It's completely nuts, but if you didn't get that chopped down by financial aid grants and had to pay it all via loans, it wouldn't take long to get ridiculously in hock.
Even better, it's up 20% from when I graduated, just a few years ago... Gotta pay those six-figure salaries for assistant deans of XYZ, $25/hr cafeteria workers and security forces to make sure adult students aren't drinking hard alcohol somehow.
I laugh and hang up the phone when they call up and dun me for alumni donations.
- maxerickson 10y agoIs it remotely worth it to take out $50k a year in loans to go there?
- douche 10y agoI would say no... It's a prestigious name to have on the piece of paper, but I'm not sure that's worth starting out in life with a full mortgage-worth of debt... I think I'd have had to double down and go through the I-banking/consulting/doctor/lawyer track to try to dig out, rather than go into something I actually kind of enjoy. I was poor enough that the financial aid made it a better decision - something like 3-5k more per year than going to my state university, which doesn't look anywhere near as good on a resume.