Is anyone else nervous - and angry- about having to spend so much for college in the face of AI, lack of any sort of

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corporate loyalty to employees in our current state of affairs, etc.? I am seriously worried for my kids, and their long term financial stability. And frustrated at the amount that will be spent for their education with no guarantees.

And yes, I know some DCUM people will rush to smugly remark how college is about more than just ROI, or how *they* diligently saved in their 529 from before birth so it's NBD or how their dc is going to community college and then to state school and they are so smart and saving so much money, blah, blah... but the reality is that college is very expensive for most people, and certainly for many of the private college attendees who lurk on here. More and more highly educated people I know are saying they are starting to think it's all a scam.

Thoughts?

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It’s not worth saying in the thread about SEC schools, which has gone off the rails, but it seems to me this must be a big reason for what seems to be the rising popularity of state schools.

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We are highly likely to achieve AGI in approximately 3 to 5 years and ASI within 10 years.

Nothing matters once an entity develops ASI.

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I seriously doubt the tech lords are going to at the wee peasants (us) AGI. Never going to happen. And their kids will go to university.

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Anonymous wrote:corporate loyalty to employees in our current state of affairs, etc.? I am seriously worried for my kids, and their long term financial stability. And frustrated at the amount that will be spent for their education with no guarantees.

And yes, I know some DCUM people will rush to smugly remark how college is about more than just ROI, or how *they* diligently saved in their 529 from before birth so it's NBD or how their dc is going to community college and then to state school and they are so smart and saving so much money, blah, blah... but the reality is that college is very expensive for most people, and certainly for many of the private college attendees who lurk on here. More and more highly educated people I know are saying they are starting to think it's all a scam.

Thoughts?

Hope my daughter gets in her top choice sorority.

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Go pre-med, then med school and get a job in emergency medicine in a big city.

You have AI proofed yourself.

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Yes, anxious but there’s no way forward except through it. If you study history, this is still basically the most secure, comfortable humans have ever been. Think about parents sending their kids off across the Oregon trail, or putting them on rickety boats to emigrate across an ocean (and those are basically the GOOD options from history)…..the risks all seem lower here.

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College tuition is the part that still feels unjustified to me. Parents are the ones paying, yet the choices are limited. At the very least, public colleges should be free for citizens.

Private schools are expensive and mainly sell prestige rather than education—and that’s their choice. But it makes no sense to me that public schools operate the same way, funding themselves by pushing out in-state students in favor of out-of-state and international applicants.

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Anonymous wrote:Go pre-med, then med school and get a job in emergency medicine in a big city.

You have AI proofed yourself.

Yep.
Or Ag/Agtech or hospitality at Cornell.

Both colleges see massively increased interest.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Go pre-med, then med school and get a job in emergency medicine in a big city.

You have AI proofed yourself.

Yep.
Or Ag/Agtech or hospitality at Cornell.

Both colleges see massively increased interest.

Premed and medical school are another part of the problem:
1. Students take on years of schooling with no guarantee of success—a massive investment of time and money.
2. It raises the question: are students truly passionate about medicine, or are they pursuing it purely for financial reasons? If it’s the latter, both future doctors and their patients ultimately suffer.
3. Either AI or the imported H1B physicians will eventually saturate the market

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Go pre-med, then med school and get a job in emergency medicine in a big city.

You have AI proofed yourself.

Yep.
Or Ag/Agtech or hospitality at Cornell.

Both colleges see massively increased interest.

Premed and medical school are another part of the problem:
1. Students take on years of schooling with no guarantee of success—a massive investment of time and money.
2. It raises the question: are students truly passionate about medicine, or are they pursuing it purely for financial reasons? If it’s the latter, both future doctors and their patients ultimately suffer.
3. Either AI or the imported H1B physicians will eventually saturate the market

Let's be honest here, 99% of kids go for premed or med for money.

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Anonymous wrote:Go pre-med, then med school and get a job in emergency medicine in a big city.

You have AI proofed yourself.

I could see ER docs being replaced by AI algorithms telling technicians and mid levels what to carry out. There will be a need for healthcare roles, but there will be less need for high level expensive MD education, except for a few to oversee operations. Much of medicine is algorithmic nowadays.

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Honestly, you should sit down with your college kids and go through the map of what will change.

There are a lot of ideas for "AI-proof" careers in certain segments, but you need to develop a niche. Get out of CS if you can.

Ask the paid version of Claude to review that MIT study, your kid's majors (and their resume) and give specific "niche" ideas.

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Anonymous wrote:I seriously doubt the tech lords are going to at the wee peasants (us) AGI. Never going to happen. And their kids will go to university.

Only males

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, anxious but there’s no way forward except through it. If you study history, this is still basically the most secure, comfortable humans have ever been. Think about parents sending their kids off across the Oregon trail, or putting them on rickety boats to emigrate across an ocean (and those are basically the GOOD options from history)…..the risks all seem lower here.

+1. My grandparents' biggest worry is that their kid would live past 20 years old. Let's get some perspective here. Why are you assuming AI will be a bad thing? Maybe your kid will profit off it hugely.