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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Career outcomes are one of the main things families look at when deciding whether a school is worth the cost. UC coa is now well over $100K. The article says students remembered hearing a similar statistic when deciding to attend UC, they felt confident because the outcomes were that strong. A flashy statistic.  Used in aggressive admissions marketing. Families rely on these numbers when deciding whether to buy a very expensive educational product. It’s getting very close to consumer fraud territory.[/quote]
Are you full-pay, and your DC did not land a job after graduation? Is that why you are so bitter? My condolences if that is the case. Otherwise, it is hard to understand the level of anger here.[/quote]

NP - What’s hard to understand is why the UChicago boosters turn a blind eye to these practices. The critics are actual UChicago students (not the loathsome “Emory Mom”).[/quote]

I have no connection to UChicago. But these practices are very common among top private schools (even the not-so-top ones). Just think back to all the mails your kids received from various schools. How many of them highlighted in big fonts their "% employed within 6 months of graduation," "N XX prize winners," "N:1 student-faculty ratio," "% classes with <20 students," etc. These are all just marketing numbers. If one does a deep dive into how each of these numbers is obtained, I'm confident they would find some exaggeration or manipulation. For example, on "% classes with <20 students," a school can create a bunch of directed studies or internship credit "classes" with no lectures and with only a handful of enrolled students to increase the %. There are many ways to game these numbers, and nearly everyone does it to some extent. What the UChicago students reported can be found at most schools if anyone wants to dig into the numbers.[/quote]

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