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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]LOL.  OP, they are for rich people, with a smattering of merit-based poor and middle-class famliies so the rich can feel like they also made it on merit.[/quote]

Yet 2/3 of students are receiving need based aid. So “primarily” doesn’t seem to work. And as I mentioned international students (typically full pay) are 10 pct. Doesn’t leave a lot of full pay domestic students. And half of them may not qualify for aid but parents are struggling to pay for it, [b]borrowing against 401ks  etc [/b][/quote]

Idiots in bolded. [/quote]

Lol, you think it's a bad idea to wipe out your retirement assets to buy your daughter a $320k Bachelors degree in Anthropology from Bryn Mawr?[/quote]

What if the 320k anthro degree from Bryn Mawr is a 320k artificial intelligence degree from Carnegie Melon or a 320k quantitative economics degree from MIT? It's not just majors that you consider to be lightweight at SLACs that have become unaffordable [/quote]

I was actually thinking about CS at CMU as I wrote that.  Beg borrow and steal to get that degree!  Top tier CS and Econ degrees def worth the money w a motivated kid.[/quote]

That's my point. People love the example of art history at Colby, but there are degrees that will pay off if the family can find a way to fund them. I used AI instead of CS because you can find comparable CS options for cheap, the same isn't true for AI. Likewise, you can find econ degrees anywhere, but MIT educated quants are going to get the jobs they want [/quote]

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