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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our toured leaned into everything being “free”.  Free food, free copies, free transit passes, so much FA it’s very very cheap.

For us, full pay with 200k salary, I wasn’t loving it. [/quote]
We've had a couple tours like that. One parent said, well, not really free, I mean we're being asked to pay $90,000 a year plus interest on the loans. Awkward moment.[/quote]
As a professor at an R-1 that doesn't have a "cashless" campus, I've seen first hand how financially segregated students are by their ability to pay for things. At my university, students have to pay to attend sporting events, lectures, to go on trips with certain clubs, etc. A lot of socializing happens around students going out to eat, taking Uber to different parts of town, even joining upscale gyms and exercise classes (Equinox, Pure Barre, etc.). Even worse, the dorms have different pricing, so the wealthier students end up with singles in the nicest dorms, whereas the poorer students end up in the "cheap" dorms. When I was a student at Swarthmore I did not have to pay to attend concerts, movies, athletic events, etc. Clubs had a ton of funding, so we could travel as a club up to NYC or Boston without leaving anyone out who couldn't afford to pay. As someone who grew up working class, I truly appreciated this aspect of Swarthmore's Quaker legacy. [/quote]

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