NYT opinion article "Did I choose the wrong college "

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Anonymous wrote:A kid that has the smarts and stats to get offered a full ride at UF AND admission into Cornell has the brains to figure this stuff out for themselves.

She is lucky that she had two working parents to help her. Between the three of them they decided that Cornell was worth taking on some debt and dipping into their own nest egg. Parents and students make financial choices like this every day although they are usually not trying to decide between Ivy or a full ride at the state flagship

Everyone got full ride into UF. The FL lottery funded it. I hear it's not as good now, but I went to UF and didn't know anyone with student loans. They covered everything except room and board, but Gainesville was super cheap to live in.

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Anonymous wrote:If she had just taken the full ride to UF her story today would be sort of boring. Cornell is what makes her experience so unique.

She wasn't hired for her Cornell pedigree. She was hired for the other pedigree. A UF degree would not have changed that.

But look at what she is best known for writing about - leaving Hialeah and going to Cornell. Without that experience to write about she's nothing special.

Cornell is nothing special. It's considered "soft" Ivy, the the easiest Ivy to get into. There are harder non-ivy schools than Cornell.

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Anonymous wrote:A kid that has the smarts and stats to get offered a full ride at UF AND admission into Cornell has the brains to figure this stuff out for themselves.

She is lucky that she had two working parents to help her. Between the three of them they decided that Cornell was worth taking on some debt and dipping into their own nest egg. Parents and students make financial choices like this every day although they are usually not trying to decide between Ivy or a full ride at the state flagship

Everyone got full ride into UF. The FL lottery funded it. I hear it's not as good now, but I went to UF and didn't know anyone with student loans. They covered everything except room and board, but Gainesville was super cheap to live in.

Apparently she got her room/board covered too. So she got something on top of the program that you're referring to. She got a free ride which is not something that most students actually get.

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Anonymous wrote:If she had just taken the full ride to UF her story today would be sort of boring. Cornell is what makes her experience so unique.

She wasn't hired for her Cornell pedigree. She was hired for the other pedigree. A UF degree would not have changed that.

But look at what she is best known for writing about - leaving Hialeah and going to Cornell. Without that experience to write about she's nothing special.

Cornell is nothing special. It's considered "soft" Ivy, the the easiest Ivy to get into. There are harder non-ivy schools than Cornell.

Whatever. She says she didn't apply anywhere else because she couldn't afford the application fees. Given that she and her parents then decided that they would manage to afford Cornell....it's interesting that she felt financially constrained into applying to only two colleges. Makes for an interesting story though.

I'm not about to dis Cornell, it's a highly reputable school with a long history. Lots of students would be thrilled to attend Cornell.

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Anonymous wrote:Tenure is a pay bump, prob about $7-10k at Nebraska, so she's going to make approx. $85k this year. Nearing six figures before factoring in perks in ultra low cost flyover country.

Yeah but who wants to live in Lincoln Nebraska????

Judging by population statistics, not many.

Lincoln Nebraska has been rated in the top ten best college towns. She could do way worse than that.

Yeah but she’s obv jealous of her BFF living in a big house in a nice FL suburb with a pool and a dock. If that’s what you envision as being ideal, Lincoln is not goi g to cut it.

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Anonymous wrote:Tenure is a pay bump, prob about $7-10k at Nebraska, so she's going to make approx. $85k this year. Nearing six figures before factoring in perks in ultra low cost flyover country.

Yeah but who wants to live in Lincoln Nebraska????

Judging by population statistics, not many.

Lincoln Nebraska has been rated in the top ten best college towns. She could do way worse than that.

Yeah but she’s obv jealous of her BFF living in a big house in a nice FL suburb with a pool and a dock. If that’s what you envision as being ideal, Lincoln is not goi g to cut it.

Lol, sure. If she had gone debt free she, too, could be driving around in a sparkling brand new Mercedes SUV and spending her days sailing and sipping wine. Alas, that was not to be.

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Anonymous wrote:Tenure is a pay bump, prob about $7-10k at Nebraska, so she's going to make approx. $85k this year. Nearing six figures before factoring in perks in ultra low cost flyover country.

Yeah but who wants to live in Lincoln Nebraska????

Judging by population statistics, not many.

Lincoln Nebraska has been rated in the top ten best college towns. She could do way worse than that.

Yeah but she’s obv jealous of her BFF living in a big house in a nice FL suburb with a pool and a dock. If that’s what you envision as being ideal, Lincoln is not goi g to cut it.

And she admitted to making fun of a Midwest farmer's daughter when she was at Cornell. WTF!!!?!??!??? Normally by that age, socially conscious kids know better. She seems very confused even now.

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By that standard, almost no one is socially conscious on DCUM.

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Anonymous wrote:Tenure is a pay bump, prob about $7-10k at Nebraska, so she's going to make approx. $85k this year. Nearing six figures before factoring in perks in ultra low cost flyover country.

Yeah but who wants to live in Lincoln Nebraska????

Judging by population statistics, not many.

Lincoln Nebraska has been rated in the top ten best college towns. She could do way worse than that.

Yeah but she’s obv jealous of her BFF living in a big house in a nice FL suburb with a pool and a dock. If that’s what you envision as being ideal, Lincoln is not goi g to cut it.

And she admitted to making fun of a Midwest farmer's daughter when she was at Cornell. WTF!!!?!??!??? Normally by that age, socially conscious kids know better. She seems very confused even now.

Yeah, well Karma has landed her smack dab in the middle of Nebraska. If she has kids, they will be born and raised in Nebraska just like most of her students are.

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Anonymous wrote:By that standard, almost no one is socially conscious on DCUM.

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The NYT trots out one of these “it doesn’t matter where you go to college” pieces every spring. Yet look at the columnists attended and where the columnists send their kids...Harvard, Middlebury, Yale, Chicago, Columbia.

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Anonymous wrote:By that standard, almost no one is socially conscious on DCUM.

Most kids living in the dorm seem to understand this. Socially conscious or not, there are things called basic kindness, decency, courtesy, politeness, and all all those good stuff. DCUM visitors may lack these. But I expect more from 18 yr olds living together in the dorm.

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>wants to be southern tacky rich
>studies English and Gender Studies
>pursues academia

Wow, I'm surprised her plan didn't work out! Could be worse, she could have gone to UF and instead of writing for the Times and being tenured at Nebraska she'd be a dirt poor adjunct at Miami-Dade community college.

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Anonymous wrote:>wants to be southern tacky rich
>studies English and Gender Studies
>pursues academia

Wow, I'm surprised her plan didn't work out! Could be worse, she could have gone to UF and instead of writing for the Times and being tenured at Nebraska she'd be a dirt poor adjunct at Miami-Dade community college.

She would be teaching college students by day and her nights and weekends would be spent playing on the beach, sailing and sipping margaritas.

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Anonymous wrote:>wants to be southern tacky rich
>studies English and Gender Studies
>pursues academia

Wow, I'm surprised her plan didn't work out! Could be worse, she could have gone to UF and instead of writing for the Times and being tenured at Nebraska she'd be a dirt poor adjunct at Miami-Dade community college.

She would be teaching college students by day and her nights and weekends would be spent playing on the beach, sailing and sipping margaritas.

A community college instructor makes maybe $40k a year.