Why can't universities have a flat tuition where everyone pays the same?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Because they’re liberals and enjoy using other people’s money to “change” lives.

Found the one who didn’t go to college.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Because universities are for the most part run by people with socialist tendencies, unless it comes to their salaries of course.

That doesn’t even make sense.

[Anonymous]

I don’t know anyone paying 100% debt for undergrad. That would only happen in a dysfunctional family with wealthy parents that just refuse to pay for college.

There are 1000s of colleges that give merit aid to everyone…even a billionaire’s kid.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The business term is "price discrimination" and extracting as much as possible from each tier of customer, based on their ability/willingness to pay.

For example, international students pay full fare (not eligible fro financial aid).

You see the same with airlines, and even movie theaters. Why does the same movie cost half the price when you see it during the weekday matinee compared to Friday night? It's the same movie after all.

Let’s bring it to an extreme: STEM, CS, and Econ students should be paying 3x as much, and humanities students 1/3. After all, those CS majors make for a very crowded airplane.

maybe but they should only fund the humanities programs by the lower tuition or the better idea is to charrge more to keep the department running

If there is no demand for humanities studies by students why should they exist?

[Anonymous]

If you are wealthy your kids should not be taking loans. You should have saved for them. This is 100% on you if your kids have loans.

Poor families cannot save enough so they get a break on the parent contribution part.

I grew up poor and had a full merit scholarship. but started college savings for my kids when pregnant. Make better life choices and your kids won’t be burdened. The burden in YOUR choice.

[Anonymous]

I think the very rich schools will soon move to a tuition-free model. And no aid for room and board (but require living on campus).

It solves a lot of issues, they could cut an entire FA department. Even if you're a broke 19yo, you could get some Pell money, make 5k a summer, and borrow the last 10k a year. For Harvard or Princeton or MIT, that's totally reasonable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you are wealthy your kids should not be taking loans. You should have saved for them. This is 100% on you if your kids have loans.

Poor families cannot save enough so they get a break on the parent contribution part.

I grew up poor and had a full merit scholarship. but started college savings for my kids when pregnant. Make better life choices and your kids won’t be burdened. The burden in YOUR choice.

The parents already pay a lot more taxes for the society.

They shouldn't be liable for adult kid's higher education.

Something is working with the system in this country.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Because they’re liberals and enjoy using other people’s money to “change” lives.

Religious colleges indoctrinate into stupidity.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If you are wealthy your kids should not be taking loans. You should have saved for them. This is 100% on you if your kids have loans.

Poor families cannot save enough so they get a break on the parent contribution part.

I grew up poor and had a full merit scholarship. but started college savings for my kids when pregnant. Make better life choices and your kids won’t be burdened. The burden in YOUR choice.

The parents already pay a lot more taxes for the society.

They shouldn't be liable for adult kid's higher education.

Something is wrong with the system in this country.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you are wealthy your kids should not be taking loans. You should have saved for them. This is 100% on you if your kids have loans.

Poor families cannot save enough so they get a break on the parent contribution part.

I grew up poor and had a full merit scholarship. but started college savings for my kids when pregnant. Make better life choices and your kids won’t be burdened. The burden in YOUR choice.

The parents already pay a lot more taxes for the society.

They shouldn't be liable for adult kid's higher education.

Something is working with the system in this country.

What does a parent paying more for taxes have to do with private colleges?

Seems like you really want the US to become like the rest of the world and effectively nationalize private colleges.

All the top international universities are public. However, even schools like Toronto or Cambridge or Oxford provide FA…it’s just that rack rate is much lower for citizens.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you are wealthy your kids should not be taking loans. You should have saved for them. This is 100% on you if your kids have loans.

Poor families cannot save enough so they get a break on the parent contribution part.

I grew up poor and had a full merit scholarship. but started college savings for my kids when pregnant. Make better life choices and your kids won’t be burdened. The burden in YOUR choice.

The parents already pay a lot more taxes for the society.

They shouldn't be liable for adult kid's higher education.

Something is working with the system in this country.

What does a parent paying more for taxes have to do with private colleges?

Seems like you really want the US to become like the rest of the world and effectively nationalize private colleges.

All the top international universities are public. However, even schools like Toronto or Cambridge or Oxford provide FA…it’s just that rack rate is much lower for citizens.

Where have you been??
Private colleges became crybabies when Trump took away funding from them.
The private colleges are utilizing my tax money.

I don't care what other countries do.
In this country, if you are rich, you are careless and if you are poor, they get free pass.
Hardworking taxpaying middle class is severely getting punished and fukced.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you are wealthy your kids should not be taking loans. You should have saved for them. This is 100% on you if your kids have loans.

Poor families cannot save enough so they get a break on the parent contribution part.

I grew up poor and had a full merit scholarship. but started college savings for my kids when pregnant. Make better life choices and your kids won’t be burdened. The burden in YOUR choice.

The parents already pay a lot more taxes for the society.

They shouldn't be liable for adult kid's higher education.

Something is working with the system in this country.

What does a parent paying more for taxes have to do with private colleges?

Seems like you really want the US to become like the rest of the world and effectively nationalize private colleges.

All the top international universities are public. However, even schools like Toronto or Cambridge or Oxford provide FA…it’s just that rack rate is much lower for citizens.

Where have you been??
Private colleges became crybabies when Trump took away funding from them.
The private colleges are utilizing my tax money.

I don't care what other countries do.
In this country, if you are rich, you are careless and if you are poor, they get free pass.
Hardworking taxpaying middle class is severely getting punished and fukced.

If not a single dime of my tax is going to those private schools in any form or fashion.
Then I wouldn't care whatever they do.

[Anonymous]

Agreed. I think it should be a flat rate. It would actually lower full priced tuition a lot.

My ex had a pretty wealthy dad (made 500k), but his parents were divorced. His dad said tuition needed to come out of the $$$ child support he paid. Mom refused because she didn't really have a job. My ex couldn't even get a cosigner on his student loans and he definitely had to pay full price. He worked a full time job, but had to drop out because he had maxed out student loans and couldn't get more.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you are wealthy your kids should not be taking loans. You should have saved for them. This is 100% on you if your kids have loans.

Poor families cannot save enough so they get a break on the parent contribution part.

I grew up poor and had a full merit scholarship. but started college savings for my kids when pregnant. Make better life choices and your kids won’t be burdened. The burden in YOUR choice.

The parents already pay a lot more taxes for the society.

They shouldn't be liable for adult kid's higher education.

Something is working with the system in this country.

What does a parent paying more for taxes have to do with private colleges?

Seems like you really want the US to become like the rest of the world and effectively nationalize private colleges.

All the top international universities are public. However, even schools like Toronto or Cambridge or Oxford provide FA…it’s just that rack rate is much lower for citizens.

Where have you been??
Private colleges became crybabies when Trump took away funding from them.
The private colleges are utilizing my tax money.

I don't care what other countries do.
In this country, if you are rich, you are careless and if you are poor, they get free pass.
Hardworking taxpaying middle class is severely getting punished and fukced.

So…sounds like you want to nationalize top private universities. That’s what you keep saying.

Argue for all their federal funding to be revoked…which mainly impacts graduate research BTW. Notice how these schools haven’t touched undergraduate but are scaling back graduate programs.

It’s still confusing what you are crying about. Plenty of good public universities and private colleges that will give you merit aid.

So what are you crying about?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you are wealthy your kids should not be taking loans. You should have saved for them. This is 100% on you if your kids have loans.

Poor families cannot save enough so they get a break on the parent contribution part.

I grew up poor and had a full merit scholarship. but started college savings for my kids when pregnant. Make better life choices and your kids won’t be burdened. The burden in YOUR choice.

A LOT of rich parents don't agree with you. Even my own parents told me that they were rich and I had nothing. Parent's money is not the same thing as a kid's money.

My own DH does not want to pay for our kid's colleges. He pontificates about them having skin in the game, working during the summers, and making sure they choose good majors. I just nod and pump up their 529s. My children will not be paying for college. I would withhold money for bad grades though.