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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't get it. Does she feel that Cornell was not worth it? That the financial stress was too much for her parents? Or did she realize that where you go to college does not determine your life outcome? In that case, no shit Sherlock.

I feel like the essay was half finished. [/quote]

I agree.   She clearly contemplated the issues, but I don't think she really reached a conclusion.

I'm also someone who was first generation immigrant at Cornell.  The difference is there was an inheritance that paid for my education.  Without it, I would have gone to SUNY Binghamton like all my other smart classmates.   But that was many years ago before student loans were so widely available.   I think you can have a good life regardless of where you go to school. [/quote]

Interesting.  Do you feel as though you benefited from attending Cornell?  Do you think that your experience was any different than what your friends experienced at SUNY?

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I honestly don't know.   I had a couple of special circumstances.  My mother passed away from cancer my freshman year, and that just really messed me up, academically and personally.  At that time anyway, the school was not particularly supportive.  I'd like to think that has changed, but I don't know.  I don't think a SUNY school would have been any more supportive, but it would be hard for it to be less.   That, plus the fact I don't think I'm an inherently ambitious person, meant I didn't really capitilize on my education in the end.  Maybe it opened some doors along the way, I don't know.

I am extremely analytical, and I think my engineering education there helped foster that, but perhaps any engineering school could have helped there as well.   If my mother hadn't died, things probably would have been different, and maybe I'd be a math teacher with twenty-plus years experience by now.  Who knows?

I don't think I'm likely to encourage my kids to take on loans to go to an Ivy.  If they get money, great, but if not, I don't think it's worth going in to debt for.  I think UVA will be a great choice, assuming they get in.  [/quote]

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