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Surely UofChicago did not cost so little 10 years ago? A factor of 4 in ten years does not seem realistic.

kmano8 7y ago
It looks like the parent went to a different school than UofC.
jackcarter 7y ago
It was $39,381 in 2009, $58,230 in 2019 [1]. These are tuition-only, exclusive of room & board, books, etc. The $100k figure is a projection for 2025. [1] https://www.collegetuitioncompare.com/trends/university-of-chicago/cost-of-attendance/ https://www.collegetuitioncompare.com/trends/university-of-c...
SolaceQuantum 7y ago
From here: https://news.uchicago.edu/story/university-announces-increases-2010-11-undergraduate-tuition-and-financial-aid https://news.uchicago.edu/story/university-announces-increas... "The total cost of undergraduate education for the 2010-11 school year will be $53,244; of that amount, tuition is $40,188, and the remaining $13,056 is for room, board and fees. For about 60 percent of students, that cost is significantly reduced through need- or merit-based aid. And for the 49 percent of undergraduate students receiving need-based aid, the average amount of grant assistance from all sources, though not yet final, will be more than $35,000 per student in the coming year." So you are correct.
quaquaqua1 7y ago
I attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, which had a "total cost of attendance" for out of state students at $40,000 in 2010. For in state students it was only $15,000 per year. I came from a "middle class" family and received "grants" from the school, such that my cost of attendance per year averaged to $25,000. Ever since I graduated, not a single person has ever asked me anything regarding my education, and I currently make $93,000 per year as a front end dev. Strange times!!
- barneygumble742 7y ago
  Same here. I paid roughly $5k/year for undergrad and about $10k/year for grad. After graduation, only reason people ask me where I went to school was to see where it ranked in college sports. Since my school barely registered, it's easily dismissed. Even better for me since I don't follow sports. What I did find more interesting is that it all depends on your work ethic and how you carry yourself at the workplace. My lack of interest in sports has hindered me at work slightly because I'm not part of certain groups at work. I've come to find out that they all participate in fantasy sports and meet on Saturdays to talk sports and a little bit of work gets involved. Usually I wouldn't care but some important work-related decisions have come out of that.
  - quaquaqua1 7y ago
    Oh my god this. It's cancer. I had to learn all thse obscure facts about things I care about just to have a baseline credibility with those types of people. It's a hazing ritual similar to data structures and algorithms, but one is certainly more useful than the other.
    - leotaku 7y ago
      > It's a hazing ritual similar to data structures and algorithms What do you mean by that? Genuinely curious.
      - quaquaqua1 7y ago
        Many of the problems that the median software developer is working on can be acceptably solved with o(n^2) ideas which are the types of implementations that the median developer can reasonably think of "on the spot" with little prior training. Or the job is HTML CSS and basic js. However many interviews demand many rounds of demonstrating o(logn) ideas quickly, which I would argue takes x months of preparation, not x weeks or x days. I think its still very important to learn these structures, but the way they are applied in brain teaser format is not effective at finding the best all around candidate in terms of salary, general skills, sociability, iterative ability, etc. And that's just taking the process at face value. Some interviewers will take this exercise to its extreme as a reason to deny you and make themselves feel good by giving you genuinely obscure and difficult problems that even Linus Torvalds and Guido admit they can't solve today in a reasonable time frame.

It looks like the parent went to a different school than UofC.

It was $39,381 in 2009, $58,230 in 2019 [1]. These are tuition-only, exclusive of room & board, books, etc. The $100k figure is a projection for 2025. [1] https://www.collegetuitioncompare.com/trends/university-of-chicago/cost-of-attendance/ https://www.collegetuitioncompare.com/trends/university-of-c...

SolaceQuantum 7y ago

From here: https://news.uchicago.edu/story/university-announces-increases-2010-11-undergraduate-tuition-and-financial-aid https://news.uchicago.edu/story/university-announces-increas... "The total cost of undergraduate education for the 2010-11 school year will be $53,244; of that amount, tuition is $40,188, and the remaining $13,056 is for room, board and fees. For about 60 percent of students, that cost is significantly reduced through need- or merit-based aid. And for the 49 percent of undergraduate students receiving need-based aid, the average amount of grant assistance from all sources, though not yet final, will be more than $35,000 per student in the coming year." So you are correct.

quaquaqua1 7y ago

I attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, which had a "total cost of attendance" for out of state students at $40,000 in 2010. For in state students it was only $15,000 per year. I came from a "middle class" family and received "grants" from the school, such that my cost of attendance per year averaged to $25,000. Ever since I graduated, not a single person has ever asked me anything regarding my education, and I currently make $93,000 per year as a front end dev. Strange times!!

barneygumble742 7y ago
Same here. I paid roughly $5k/year for undergrad and about $10k/year for grad. After graduation, only reason people ask me where I went to school was to see where it ranked in college sports. Since my school barely registered, it's easily dismissed. Even better for me since I don't follow sports. What I did find more interesting is that it all depends on your work ethic and how you carry yourself at the workplace. My lack of interest in sports has hindered me at work slightly because I'm not part of certain groups at work. I've come to find out that they all participate in fantasy sports and meet on Saturdays to talk sports and a little bit of work gets involved. Usually I wouldn't care but some important work-related decisions have come out of that.
- quaquaqua1 7y ago
  Oh my god this. It's cancer. I had to learn all thse obscure facts about things I care about just to have a baseline credibility with those types of people. It's a hazing ritual similar to data structures and algorithms, but one is certainly more useful than the other.
  - leotaku 7y ago
    > It's a hazing ritual similar to data structures and algorithms What do you mean by that? Genuinely curious.
    - quaquaqua1 7y ago
      Many of the problems that the median software developer is working on can be acceptably solved with o(n^2) ideas which are the types of implementations that the median developer can reasonably think of "on the spot" with little prior training. Or the job is HTML CSS and basic js. However many interviews demand many rounds of demonstrating o(logn) ideas quickly, which I would argue takes x months of preparation, not x weeks or x days. I think its still very important to learn these structures, but the way they are applied in brain teaser format is not effective at finding the best all around candidate in terms of salary, general skills, sociability, iterative ability, etc. And that's just taking the process at face value. Some interviewers will take this exercise to its extreme as a reason to deny you and make themselves feel good by giving you genuinely obscure and difficult problems that even Linus Torvalds and Guido admit they can't solve today in a reasonable time frame.