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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]a lot of these schools have half the kids paying 100k a year and half paying 15k a year. People already feel like suckers .. and then when the food is frozen chicken cutlets or the dorms have mold in the vents, it's natural to complain.[/quote]

The real issue is that many of these schools force students to pay $$ for these moldy crowded dorms that regularly flood and frozen chicken cutlets for the first few years of  the degree.[/quote]
and now they're [b]forcing you to live in their moldy dorms for 4 years to make more $$$[/b]. It was a PITA to get DC's college to let him live off campus, [b]because it's a "residential experience"[/b] and 94% of students live on campus-uh huh, and it's also $92,000 this year and he'd rather share an apartment in this expensive area than stay on campus.[/quote]

Vanderbilt? This sounds exactly like their bullshit rationale -- and price tag. Many of the dorms literally ARE moldy, and flood periodically on the 1st floor. And the forced chicken cutlets are raw in the middle about 28% of the time.

It has taken me almost 3 years to realize that the school scrubs its FB and other fora of negative discussions like this, or uses parent "moderators" to gaslight commenters who protest the objectively horrible residential conditions for many* students.  (Wow! MY rising junior says she's never TASTED such great food options! She says there's ALWAYS something fun going on in the residence halls and wishes she had even MORE TIME to spend in the dorms with all her friends who LOVE the SOCIAL aspect of dorm living!!!!! :D  :D  :D

* Vandy does have 3-4 pretty new "residential colleges" with 14 ft. ceilings that, despite a "lottery," are mostly awarded to Hollywood kids and the prettiest girls.  But you'll still probably get a triple there[/quote]

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