Why would you pay full freight to send your kid to Middlebury?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Let's assume your combined income is $300K and you don't qualify for much aid, if any.

Why would you send your child to a preppy, white SLAC near the Canadian border?

23% of students come from families in the top 1%. Meanwhile, the median income for alumni at age 34 is a paltry $62K. How much value are you getting out of that $55K/year tuition? Obviously they are known for teaching and language programs, but does the tuition, isolation and limited career earnings potential justify the exorbitant cost?

If your child is interested in foreign languages and international studies then yes. Otherwise no, it's well-rounded but not standout.
Full pay for any major is only worth for Williams and Amherst.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Let's assume your combined income is $300K and you don't qualify for much aid, if any.

Why would you send your child to a preppy, white SLAC near the Canadian border?

23% of students come from families in the top 1%. Meanwhile, the median income for alumni at age 34 is a paltry $62K. How much value are you getting out of that $55K/year tuition? Obviously they are known for teaching and language programs, but does the tuition, isolation and limited career earnings potential justify the exorbitant cost?

If your child is interested in foreign languages and international studies then yes. Otherwise no, it's well-rounded but not standout.
Full pay for any major is only worth for Williams and Amherst.

Yes, correct, only two out of the thousand LACs in the country are worth it and the only place you can get an education that sets you up for success.

Ignorance x1000.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Boy this is a dumb thread even by DCUM standards. Still, I'll add my two cents.

All of our kids are five years or more out of college. When they were applying most were very good students and we were, to put it mildly, full pay. Yet it never occurred either to them or to us to pay ridiculous amounts of money for a college education. Study after study has shown that the only group of students who does significantly better in life by attending an "elite" college over, say, a state school, are URMs from modest economic backgrounds. Fast forward five or ten years post graduation, for the vast majority of DCUM posters you won't be able to tell which of your kid's friends went to State U a school like Middlebury. It simply doesn't matter. It won't even matter at cocktail parties -- instead of bragging about what school your kid got into, you'll be bragging about their job.

You and your pesky facts. This is the internet, where people just say stuff.

You mean professionally. And you think that’s all college is, professional preparation?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Boy this is a dumb thread even by DCUM standards. Still, I'll add my two cents.

All of our kids are five years or more out of college. When they were applying most were very good students and we were, to put it mildly, full pay. Yet it never occurred either to them or to us to pay ridiculous amounts of money for a college education. Study after study has shown that the only group of students who does significantly better in life by attending an "elite" college over, say, a state school, are URMs from modest economic backgrounds. Fast forward five or ten years post graduation, for the vast majority of DCUM posters you won't be able to tell which of your kid's friends went to State U a school like Middlebury. It simply doesn't matter. It won't even matter at cocktail parties -- instead of bragging about what school your kid got into, you'll be bragging about their job.

define "better in life."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Let's assume your combined income is $300K and you don't qualify for much aid, if any.

Why would you send your child to a preppy, white SLAC near the Canadian border?

23% of students come from families in the top 1%. Meanwhile, the median income for alumni at age 34 is a paltry $62K. How much value are you getting out of that $55K/year tuition? Obviously they are known for teaching and language programs, but does the tuition, isolation and limited career earnings potential justify the exorbitant cost?

If your child is interested in foreign languages and international studies then yes. Otherwise no, it's well-rounded but not standout.
Full pay for any major is only worth for Williams and Amherst.

That's the most idiotic statement I've read on this board that's positively overflowing with idiotic statements. Congratulations.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Let's assume your combined income is $300K and you don't qualify for much aid, if any.

Why would you send your child to a preppy, white SLAC near the Canadian border?

23% of students come from families in the top 1%. Meanwhile, the median income for alumni at age 34 is a paltry $62K. How much value are you getting out of that $55K/year tuition? Obviously they are known for teaching and language programs, but does the tuition, isolation and limited career earnings potential justify the exorbitant cost?

If your child is interested in foreign languages and international studies then yes. Otherwise no, it's well-rounded but not standout.
Full pay for any major is only worth for Williams and Amherst.

That's the most idiotic statement I've read on this board that's positively overflowing with idiotic statements. Congratulations.

You are so right. She left out Swarthmore.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Let's assume your combined income is $300K and you don't qualify for much aid, if any.

Why would you send your child to a preppy, white SLAC near the Canadian border?

23% of students come from families in the top 1%. Meanwhile, the median income for alumni at age 34 is a paltry $62K. How much value are you getting out of that $55K/year tuition? Obviously they are known for teaching and language programs, but does the tuition, isolation and limited career earnings potential justify the exorbitant cost?

If your child is interested in foreign languages and international studies then yes. Otherwise no, it's well-rounded but not standout.
Full pay for any major is only worth for Williams and Amherst.

If your kid is interested in foreign languages and international studies and you have 300k to spend .... send him to Quebec or Europe to get a better education and save half that amount.

[Anonymous]

Must be something special to make someone hate it so much when s/he didn't get in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Must be something special to make someone hate it so much when s/he didn't get in.

Can you post where the OP said her child didn’t get in?

I think it is funny some people actually think any school is worth $300K for a bachelors degree. And when others don’t, they claim their kids didn’t get in. I have lived in DC or NY my entire life and never heard of Middlebury. Sure, I see it now on a top SLAC list, but that doesn’t mean it is worth the cost. People can choose to have different ideals of what is worth something. The fact you think those people are only people rejected from Middlebury is ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Must be something special to make someone hate it so much when s/he didn't get in.

Can you post where the OP said her child didn’t get in?

I think it is funny some people actually think any school is worth $300K for a bachelors degree. And when others don’t, they claim their kids didn’t get in. I have lived in DC or NY my entire life and never heard of Middlebury. Sure, I see it now on a top SLAC list, but that doesn’t mean it is worth the cost. People can choose to have different ideals of what is worth something. The fact you think those people are only people rejected from Middlebury is ridiculous.

This is absolutely true. So how can you say it's not worth it? You probably mean it is not worth it to you, like the OP. I'd be thrilled if my DC could get into Middlebury, but it's too selective.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Must be something special to make someone hate it so much when s/he didn't get in.

Can you post where the OP said her child didn’t get in?

I think it is funny some people actually think any school is worth $300K for a bachelors degree. And when others don’t, they claim their kids didn’t get in. I have lived in DC or NY my entire life and never heard of Middlebury. Sure, I see it now on a top SLAC list, but that doesn’t mean it is worth the cost. People can choose to have different ideals of what is worth something. The fact you think those people are only people rejected from Middlebury is ridiculous.

Seems a very odd fixation otherwise.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Let's assume your combined income is $300K and you don't qualify for much aid, if any.

Why would you send your child to a preppy, white SLAC near the Canadian border?

23% of students come from families in the top 1%. Meanwhile, the median income for alumni at age 34 is a paltry $62K. How much value are you getting out of that $55K/year tuition? Obviously they are known for teaching and language programs, but does the tuition, isolation and limited career earnings potential justify the exorbitant cost?

If your child is interested in foreign languages and international studies then yes. Otherwise no, it's well-rounded but not standout.
Full pay for any major is only worth for Williams and Amherst.

Dummy seems to be getting even more stupid. Love it!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Boy this is a dumb thread even by DCUM standards. Still, I'll add my two cents.

All of our kids are five years or more out of college. When they were applying most were very good students and we were, to put it mildly, full pay. Yet it never occurred either to them or to us to pay ridiculous amounts of money for a college education. Study after study has shown that the only group of students who does significantly better in life by attending an "elite" college over, say, a state school, are URMs from modest economic backgrounds. Fast forward five or ten years post graduation, for the vast majority of DCUM posters you won't be able to tell which of your kid's friends went to State U a school like Middlebury. It simply doesn't matter. It won't even matter at cocktail parties -- instead of bragging about what school your kid got into, you'll be bragging about their job.

Not even worth two cents.

Truth hurts, eh?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Boy this is a dumb thread even by DCUM standards. Still, I'll add my two cents.

All of our kids are five years or more out of college. When they were applying most were very good students and we were, to put it mildly, full pay. Yet it never occurred either to them or to us to pay ridiculous amounts of money for a college education. Study after study has shown that the only group of students who does significantly better in life by attending an "elite" college over, say, a state school, are URMs from modest economic backgrounds. Fast forward five or ten years post graduation, for the vast majority of DCUM posters you won't be able to tell which of your kid's friends went to State U a school like Middlebury. It simply doesn't matter. It won't even matter at cocktail parties -- instead of bragging about what school your kid got into, you'll be bragging about their job.

You and your pesky facts. This is the internet, where people just say stuff.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Boy this is a dumb thread even by DCUM standards. Still, I'll add my two cents.

All of our kids are five years or more out of college. When they were applying most were very good students and we were, to put it mildly, full pay. Yet it never occurred either to them or to us to pay ridiculous amounts of money for a college education. Study after study has shown that the only group of students who does significantly better in life by attending an "elite" college over, say, a state school, are URMs from modest economic backgrounds. Fast forward five or ten years post graduation, for the vast majority of DCUM posters you won't be able to tell which of your kid's friends went to State U a school like Middlebury. It simply doesn't matter. It won't even matter at cocktail parties -- instead of bragging about what school your kid got into, you'll be bragging about their job.

Not even worth two cents.

Truth hurts, eh?

~crickets~