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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a kid at a large public (non “bespoke” lol) university and she hasn’t had this problem much at all. Despite the laughable snobbery here (which I hope is trolling) “you can’t always get what you want, when you want it” is a perfectly acceptable life lesson, and if they haven’t learned it by 18, they need to learn that pronto. [/quote]

If I’m paying $85k per year then yes, I will need to get what my child wants.  If your child is at some public diploma mill then they get what they’ve paid for.[/quote]

A “public diploma mill” like UVa or Michigan? [/quote]

I know bright students who've transferred out of both, and yes, they said they felt like huge overwhelming degree mills. That said, the students we know are [b]very sharp private k-12 lifers, so their expectations are higher than the usual dips*** who's just happy to be away from home and partying[/b].[/quote]

In other words, sheltered snowflakes.[/quote]

No, they're sharp and enough know what a quality education feels like, while the public lifers don't know what they don't know. And frankly, most k-12 public nitwits don't care and just think a football team, a pretty academic building, and a manicured quad makes a college, any college, "perfect".  :roll: [/quote]

Why do you hate public institutions?[/quote]

Just as the thread captures, they under-fund STEM depts and force thousands of bright undergraduates to fail and/or make them unable to register for courses they need to pursue the most sought after and marketable degrees. While the thousands of fat cat bureaucrats who run the university laugh to the bank, binge drink at football games, and cheat on their spouses at conferences. They do not care about your 18-22 year old children. They won't think twice about covering up a rape. They are awful places to be "educated" or send your 18 year old teen away to.[/quote]

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