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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I think what you’re reacting to is the focus on quantifying ROI, as if there’s some formula that will make a certain college “worth it.”

For someone who has to take out loans, I get this perspective—there’s a very practical sense of needing to be able to pay them back and live comfortably.

But for people who can afford to pay for their kids’ schooling without loans (as my parents were able to do for me, and spouse and I can for our kids), the idea of expecting some financial return on investment is harder for me to understand. For me, the ROI on our kids’ college will be their happiness; bound up in that is that they will emerge from college able to pursue careers that they enjoy and that allow them to live comfortably (however they define that). But that has nothing to do with dollars in and dollars out.

FWIW, I double-majored in humanities fields and then went to grad school for one of them. I do very well financially now, and I was able to find my way here because I never felt any pressure to make a certain amount of money to make my parents’ “investment” worthwhile. I found jobs that paid the bills and figured out what I wanted to do next. I have a really happy, satisfying life, which I owe in part to my intrinsic motivation and in part to my parents’ willingness to let me figure it out without earning pressure.[/quote]

Let me guess, you went to law school?[/quote]

No, I got a master’s degree in English.[/quote]

Curious, what job do you have now? Almost all of the MFA people I know as well as those with graduate degrees in the humanities ended up deeply regretting it, so I'm just curious as to what you do now. [/quote]

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