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I went to a private mid tier university. I was on a mostly full ride mind you. imo the reason to go to such a place is the lifestyle. The opportunity to make s

I went to a private mid tier university. I was on a mostly full ride mind you. imo the reason to go to such a place is the lifestyle. The opportunity to make some friends as an adult while you still have a hefty amount of time for leisure; adjust your lifestyle from whatever shape it took in a traditional high school experience; and connect with a group of peers of whatever wealth / academic interest group you prefer is pretty great. Not to say this can’t be done in a community college, but I would imagine it’s less of a dorm vacation.

FrontierPsych 4y ago
Full ride is always a different situation, of course. We are talking about the high cost of university, obviously if anyone gets a full scholarship, they go to university at the best price. Or a scholarship amount that makes it roughly equivalent to a public university. But most don't get that, and with many private universities at $250K for 4 years, it simply is the worst choice someone can make - to be saddled with that debt. Unless as also stated elsewhere, if you go to a T1 school. I actually did go to my first year to a small private university but that was long ago when it was reasonable. $4,500 for room, board, and tuition. That same exact university is now $60,000 for the same thing. And bringing $4,500 to present day, that is equivalent to about $18,000. I saw zero difference in lifestyle myself. I think this is just one of the things that small universities say to justify their fucked up tuition price. Maybe 40 years ago, you can go for lifestyle, but now....no fucking way. How is a lifestyle worth $250,000? Yes, in a community college it didn'th happen, but it did when I went to the next 2 years at public university in a university town. Also, at the community college, actually I did meet people and hung out with them, as well as made excellent friends elsewhere that I still am friends with. But the whole "dorm vacation"" idea is a loser idea, unless you have a full ride. I can think of a lot of other vacations that I could afford with $240,000. The reason to go to university is one single reason these days - to get one single piece of paper. You are paying for one sheet of paper. That's it. Today. Not 40 and 50 years ago...then it was ok to go for the "experience" and I mean that. But not now. Hells no. Those days are long gone. Shit, you could get a degree in English or History or whatever you wished because you could easily pay for university. Now....best only to get a computer science or business degree. For anything else, just learn on Udemy or Khan academy. No other degrees pays back the cost of college. By the way, here in California, one can go to community college and 2 years of California State University and get a university degree for $15,000 to $20,000 in total. Total cost of a degree (not including room, board and books but one has to pay that anywhere - tuition is issue). Best deal in the world.

FrontierPsych 4y ago

Full ride is always a different situation, of course. We are talking about the high cost of university, obviously if anyone gets a full scholarship, they go to university at the best price. Or a scholarship amount that makes it roughly equivalent to a public university. But most don't get that, and with many private universities at $250K for 4 years, it simply is the worst choice someone can make - to be saddled with that debt. Unless as also stated elsewhere, if you go to a T1 school. I actually did go to my first year to a small private university but that was long ago when it was reasonable. $4,500 for room, board, and tuition. That same exact university is now $60,000 for the same thing. And bringing $4,500 to present day, that is equivalent to about $18,000. I saw zero difference in lifestyle myself. I think this is just one of the things that small universities say to justify their fucked up tuition price. Maybe 40 years ago, you can go for lifestyle, but now....no fucking way. How is a lifestyle worth $250,000? Yes, in a community college it didn'th happen, but it did when I went to the next 2 years at public university in a university town. Also, at the community college, actually I did meet people and hung out with them, as well as made excellent friends elsewhere that I still am friends with. But the whole "dorm vacation"" idea is a loser idea, unless you have a full ride. I can think of a lot of other vacations that I could afford with $240,000. The reason to go to university is one single reason these days - to get one single piece of paper. You are paying for one sheet of paper. That's it. Today. Not 40 and 50 years ago...then it was ok to go for the "experience" and I mean that. But not now. Hells no. Those days are long gone. Shit, you could get a degree in English or History or whatever you wished because you could easily pay for university. Now....best only to get a computer science or business degree. For anything else, just learn on Udemy or Khan academy. No other degrees pays back the cost of college. By the way, here in California, one can go to community college and 2 years of California State University and get a university degree for $15,000 to $20,000 in total. Total cost of a degree (not including room, board and books but one has to pay that anywhere - tuition is issue). Best deal in the world.