Reply to Middle class families - Are you willing to take on a ton of debt for a top college?

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

Reply to "Middle class families - Are you willing to take on a ton of debt for a top college?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At Columbia you're going to become friends with peers who will become very successful. At UVA you're going to meet a bunch of future SAHM, nurses, teachers, salesman, lawyers. Different levels.[/quote]

That's all well and good but OPs kid won't be hanging out with them; as already mentioned, she'll be busy with work-study, and wont have the cash to prowl the very expensive city like her UMC and upper class classmates.  The networking value will be very limited; the Ivy league does not work that way, the rich hang with the rich, and the poor with the poor.  Only people who really crossed those boundaries were very attractive women (going from poor to rich).[/quote]

This is an important, and often overlooked point when people start shaming middle class parents for not spending $200k+ to send junior to Elite U, when they can go to a school one tier below almost for free. [/quote]

This is true everywhere you go.[/quote]

Not weighing in on whether it's worth the $70K per year price tag (and, if so, for whom and under what circumstances),  but the exceptionally smart, hard-working ambitious kids hang out with each other and become upwardly mobile through achievement rather than marrying into wealth.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics