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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://wapo.st/4b31Cky

Now, more than ever, families and students pursuing higher education opportunities must do their research into the financial viability of colleges as well as the long-term cost of tuition, student loans, and other expenses.  In many cases, this is almost as big a financial investment as buying a home.[/quote]

Our upper middle class neighbor's daughter is going to play soccer at some D3 college in the fall and they swear they're only paying $10,000 total all-in per year. Tells me these small colleges are extremely hard-up for students.[/quote]

They are charging $10k because that’s all these under resourced colleges are worth. There is literally zero on-campus recruiting. They can’t afford expensive engineering or nursing depts. They’re a joke with tenured faculty, admins & local vendors all leeching off the dying carcass until they go insolvent.[/quote]

And, yet, professors at the well-off research universities often prefer to send their own children to LACs without engineering and nursing programs.  [/quote]

Reminds me of the school administrators in the public schools where we lived sending their own kids to private or parochial school in HS

I know people liked to complain about the “hypocrisy” because it involved my family.

I did attend the public schools in ES and MS, but the public schools couldn’t offer the same resources at that level as the parochial HS I attended. The tax base in the county was what it was and just couldn’t expand programs to make it competitive.[/quote]

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