Which college is worth $90k?
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Anonymous
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I really just want to know why it costs so much.
At this point, I’m starting to wonder if people in Switzerland are actually cracking open golden eggs for breakfast! - egg prices - Country Price (USD) Switzerland $7.27 - $7.64 New Zealand $6.15 - $6.75 Australia $4.59 - $7.63 Denmark $4.79 - $5.06 Austria $4.23 - $4.81 Norway $4.60 - $6.21 United States $4.25 - $4.40 (average) United Kingdom $3.91 - $4.46 Germany $3.77 - $3.85 Canada $2.87 - $3.50 Japan $2.09 - $2.21 |
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote: For something qualitatively different from large private universities and public flagships, look to purely-undergraduate focused colleges, at which the experience may be difficult to replicate at a lower cost. When Forbes last considered such a question, for example, it included national universities, but placed Amherst first: 10 Expensive Colleges Worth Every Penny 2017 https://share.google/LrWh6s6XfLLGWqmB6 This is the entire list: 1. Amherst 2. Dartmouth 3. Williams 4. UChicago 5. Tufts 6. Colgate 7. UPenn 8. Columbia 9. Hamilton 10. Vassar |
Anonymous
| We can easily afford it, but would never pay that much for college. It’s just an absurd amount of money to charge and there are no schools that are worth that much. I’m actually embarrassed for parents who insist otherwise. |
Anonymous
off topic, but my spouse is from the UK, and we go back often. We've noticed that the col in the US is starting to surpass the UK. We might end up retiring there for some years if the prices here in the US continue as they are. My spouse never thought this would happen, but here we are. |
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On the flip side, college is like $1500 a year at etf Zurich (equivalent to MIT), healthcare costs next to nothing and doesn’t depend on your job, childcare is cheap, etc. |
Anonymous
Hell no. WHY? No one has heard of Wash U! What does Wash U give you that UVA does not? UVA ranks above Wash U in every category, including UVA being the No. 1 public producer of Rhodes Scholars. My kid is at Oxford via UVA. No one at Oxford has heard of Wash U. From there he launched to Yale law school. That doesn't happen from Wash U And to remind: Wash U is $97,995 and UVA is $40K instate. Bank the difference and you can afford to pay for grad school or a down payment for your kids. |
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This is a divergent ranking and seems to have been mentioned as an aside. |
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He thinks he’s interacting with chat gpt. |
Anonymous
| S/O question: is the Claremont colleges worth $90k. It seems so ideal to have the instruction attention and close knit culture of a small school and the resources and diverse social opportunities of a larger campus |
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Reading DCUM to watch humans fight over the last scraps, then reading about how AI will soon run the economy.
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club sport, downhill and Nordic ski centers, rec sailing on the lake, trips to Montreal, interest clubs, lectures, prof hosted events like election watches, lecture series, performances, campus job, dating, parties, going abroad, meets with professors and various offices regularly, etc. It’s just easy to be involved and an active community. I’ve even met both presidents and several staff members the few times I’ve visited, it feels very dynamic |
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First post,best post. |
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If you're interested in a small school, it's one of the best bargains out there, especially due to the nature of the 5 colleges. DD was really hoping to get into Pomona for math (but has been deferred, so hope is still left!). Quality of life seems really high. |
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| Stanford and Duke aren’t worth every penny. |
Anonymous
I’m a happy Wash. U. alum. who worked at UVa. briefly. I think that UVa., William & Mary and Va Tech are all comparable to Wash. U., both in terms of student life and in academics, and that it would be absurd for a donut hole family to pay $90,000 per year for Wash. U. instead of, say, $40,000 all in for Wash. U. On the other hand: - Wash. U. has very generous financial aid. The average net cost is about $23,000, compared with $18,000 per year at UVa. Even for Virginia residents who just want to go out of state for school, spending the extra $5,000 might be worth it. - Virginia has terrific, relatively small state schools, but a lot of states (example: Missouri) don’t have state universities that are anything like Wash. U. California has much better known schools that are a lot tougher on the undergrads. So, for a donut hole family in Missouri or California, the value calculations might look a lot different than in Virginia. - UVa. is a great school with a great reputation, but Wash. U. is a great school, too. The idea that it’s impossible to become a Rhodes scholar at Wash. U. or that it’s hard to get into Yale Law School from Wash. U. is off the mark. Here, for example, is a list of Wash. U. Rhodes scholars: https://libguides.wustl.edu/wustl-faq/rhodes And the Yale and Harvard law schools both have Wash. U. on their lists of schools that have sent them students in the past few years. |