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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Depends on the major and end goal.

Grad school is much easier to get in.

[b]Only stupid people would pay a lot of money for grad school[/b][/quote]

smart people get free tuition and stipend for grad school (admittedly, still less $$ than market job)[/quote]

It’s not liveable anymore.[/quote]

This depends on the field and the person and how they use their degree.[/quote]

The stipend is not enough to live on. [/quote]

Yeah -- have you seen the grad student strikes across the country?[/quote]

Misguided kids without any other direction yet wasting their most productive years in the classroom.
There is a huge PhD glut, that's why the tenure track jobs are drying up (adjuncts are cheaper!). The grad students who are unionizing for higher pay to lead undergrad classes don't seem to understand it is a temporary apprenticeship. Universities have set term limits on how long one can dawdle unproductively in a phd program. So they have to hurry it up and finish the program then start job hunting at small regional colleges that might pay them enough to live in a trailer.
Read about the English lit teacher who basically lives in her car.[/quote]

Curious, do you feel this way about every labor strike?[/quote]

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