Anonymous wrote:I don't get the trolls who start these threads. EVERY private college is 85-95K all in. Stop starting these "I can't believe! Is X school worth it?" Let's pile them all in here right now...
Is Tufts, BC, NYU, USC, Villanova, U Miami, U Wash, Pomona, worth it!? I mean, is a Chanel bag worth it?! Thousands of parents can pay these schools full freight and not blink an eye.
If price matters to you, do your value shopping for the college that's in your budget.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s crazy and there is no truly rational answer, except if you concede that our society is deeply unfair and what you’re paying for are the connections you make at these elite schools.

Is tufts even elite anymore?

It was never elite.
More like semi-elite

Tufts is not semi-elite either.
NYU would be semi-elite. Tufts is a target school for most kids.

Not a fan of Tufts either, and do think it's overvalued. But that it's a target for most is laughable. Single digit acceptance rates = not a target for most. All the DCUM posters on other threads advising your kid with 1480 SAT/4.0 UW to be realistic and not bother applying to T50 and get comfortable with Drexel would disagree.

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Anonymous wrote:Does the OP realize that this is a DC site? What college comparable to Tufts can my DC resident children attend for $30k. Please, tell me so I can stop saving and go on a damn vacation.

But what do you mean by “comparable”? Any state school will give you an excellent education for much cheaper. What exactly are you getting for 2 or 3x the price?

Again, please find me an excellent state school that costs $30k OOS. Please!

Well the assumption is that a high stats kid will be getting plenty of merit aid.

Again - name some names please. Tell me the names of the excellent public universities that will give my high stats DC kids enough merit aid to make the cost $30k. Because many of us have been at this search for years and still haven’t found such a thing.

Michigan State is ranked 60th. They give 15k merit scholarships plus 5k for Honors college. That brings tuition down to about 33k. They have an amazing alumni network and study abroad programs. It’s a great school.

Florida state is ranked 53rd. Their OOS tuition is 21K (not sure about room and board).

I can find more if you want.

Yes, please - not the persn you quoted but I would love ideas. Not huge state schools though a cople are fine. Seriously plese help!

Have you heard of Google?

Don’t be a doucħe

Don’t be helpless!!

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Anonymous wrote:Does the OP realize that this is a DC site? What college comparable to Tufts can my DC resident children attend for $30k. Please, tell me so I can stop saving and go on a damn vacation.

But what do you mean by “comparable”? Any state school will give you an excellent education for much cheaper. What exactly are you getting for 2 or 3x the price?

Again, please find me an excellent state school that costs $30k OOS. Please!

Well the assumption is that a high stats kid will be getting plenty of merit aid.

Again - name some names please. Tell me the names of the excellent public universities that will give my high stats DC kids enough merit aid to make the cost $30k. Because many of us have been at this search for years and still haven’t found such a thing.

Michigan State is ranked 60th. They give 15k merit scholarships plus 5k for Honors college. That brings tuition down to about 33k. They have an amazing alumni network and study abroad programs. It’s a great school.

Florida state is ranked 53rd. Their OOS tuition is 21K (not sure about room and board).

I can find more if you want.

Yes, please - not the persn you quoted but I would love ideas. Not huge state schools though a cople are fine. Seriously plese help!

Have you heard of Google?

Don’t be a doucħe

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Anonymous wrote:It’s crazy and there is no truly rational answer, except if you concede that our society is deeply unfair and what you’re paying for are the connections you make at these elite schools.

Is tufts even elite anymore?

It was never elite.
More like semi-elite

Tufts is not semi-elite either.
NYU would be semi-elite. Tufts is a target school for most kids.

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Anonymous wrote:Does the OP realize that this is a DC site? What college comparable to Tufts can my DC resident children attend for $30k. Please, tell me so I can stop saving and go on a damn vacation.

But what do you mean by “comparable”? Any state school will give you an excellent education for much cheaper. What exactly are you getting for 2 or 3x the price?

Again, please find me an excellent state school that costs $30k OOS. Please!

Well the assumption is that a high stats kid will be getting plenty of merit aid.

Again - name some names please. Tell me the names of the excellent public universities that will give my high stats DC kids enough merit aid to make the cost $30k. Because many of us have been at this search for years and still haven’t found such a thing.

Michigan State is ranked 60th. They give 15k merit scholarships plus 5k for Honors college. That brings tuition down to about 33k. They have an amazing alumni network and study abroad programs. It’s a great school.

Florida state is ranked 53rd. Their OOS tuition is 21K (not sure about room and board).

I can find more if you want.

Yes, please - not the persn you quoted but I would love ideas. Not huge state schools though a cople are fine. Seriously plese help!

Have you heard of Google?

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Anonymous wrote:Does the OP realize that this is a DC site? What college comparable to Tufts can my DC resident children attend for $30k. Please, tell me so I can stop saving and go on a damn vacation.

But what do you mean by “comparable”? Any state school will give you an excellent education for much cheaper. What exactly are you getting for 2 or 3x the price?

Again, please find me an excellent state school that costs $30k OOS. Please!

Well the assumption is that a high stats kid will be getting plenty of merit aid.

Again - name some names please. Tell me the names of the excellent public universities that will give my high stats DC kids enough merit aid to make the cost $30k. Because many of us have been at this search for years and still haven’t found such a thing.

Michigan State is ranked 60th. They give 15k merit scholarships plus 5k for Honors college. That brings tuition down to about 33k. They have an amazing alumni network and study abroad programs. It’s a great school.

Florida state is ranked 53rd. Their OOS tuition is 21K (not sure about room and board).

I can find more if you want.

Yes, please - not the persn you quoted but I would love ideas. Not huge state schools though a cople are fine. Seriously plese help!

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Anonymous wrote:I just looked on their website, and all in, Tufts is $88,300 (including a mandatory 1K health and wellness fee -wtf is that?!?).

Someone please tell me how this is (or any school) is worth almost 90K. What are you exactly getting that you can’t get elsewhere for 1/2 or 1/3 the price?

You sound like you don't have to worry about paying Tufts tuition, OP.

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Anonymous wrote:Does the OP realize that this is a DC site? What college comparable to Tufts can my DC resident children attend for $30k. Please, tell me so I can stop saving and go on a damn vacation.

But what do you mean by “comparable”? Any state school will give you an excellent education for much cheaper. What exactly are you getting for 2 or 3x the price?

Again, please find me an excellent state school that costs $30k OOS. Please!

Well the assumption is that a high stats kid will be getting plenty of merit aid.

Again - name some names please. Tell me the names of the excellent public universities that will give my high stats DC kids enough merit aid to make the cost $30k. Because many of us have been at this search for years and still haven’t found such a thing.

Michigan State is ranked 60th. They give 15k merit scholarships plus 5k for Honors college. That brings tuition down to about 33k. They have an amazing alumni network and study abroad programs. It’s a great school.

Florida state is ranked 53rd. Their OOS tuition is 21K (not sure about room and board).

I can find more if you want.

Anonymous wrote:I just looked on their website, and all in, Tufts is $88,300 (including a mandatory 1K health and wellness fee -wtf is that?!?).

Someone please tell me how this is (or any school) is worth almost 90K. What are you exactly getting that you can’t get elsewhere for 1/2 or 1/3 the price?

Anonymous wrote:$88k a yea; let’s break that down, college is only in session 8 months out of the year: so you would pay $11,000 per month when they’re in school which is approx $2,750 per week. The state of college tuition is NUTS.
I wouldn’t pay that unless it’s an IVY. Even then it’s just unconscionable

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Anonymous wrote:Does the OP realize that this is a DC site? What college comparable to Tufts can my DC resident children attend for $30k. Please, tell me so I can stop saving and go on a damn vacation.

But what do you mean by “comparable”? Any state school will give you an excellent education for much cheaper. What exactly are you getting for 2 or 3x the price?

Again, please find me an excellent state school that costs $30k OOS. Please!

Well the assumption is that a high stats kid will be getting plenty of merit aid.

Again - name some names please. Tell me the names of the excellent public universities that will give my high stats DC kids enough merit aid to make the cost $30k. Because many of us have been at this search for years and still haven’t found such a thing.

Michigan State is ranked 60th. They give 15k merit scholarships plus 5k for Honors college. That brings tuition down to about 33k. They have an amazing alumni network and study abroad programs. It’s a great school.

Florida state is ranked 53rd. Their OOS tuition is 21K (not sure about room and board).

I can find more if you want.

Half of the 83k OP is complaining about is room and board. Florida is 45k with room and board. Michigan state is Michigan state, which is not comparable to Tufts. Michigan is comparable to Tufts and is 76k for the first two years and 80k for the last two years

Why is Michigan State not comparable to Tufts? Other than name recognition, no one can say why Tufts is so superior.

One is small private university in New England, the other is a large land grant university in Michigan. How are they comparable other than both awarding bachelors degrees?

We’re talking about quality of education. I mean if you want to pay 80K to be in Boston at a small school, then kudos to you. But others were asking for excellent state schools that are cheaper and I provided two examples.

So how are they comparable? What makes the quality of education at Michigan State comparable to Tufts?

That’s what I’m asking. People seem to think that Tufts is superior. I haven’t seen any quantifiable evidence that the education itself is that much better. Until I do, I don’t see a difference with most colleges. And I don’t see the point of paying so much for location or name brand. But that’s just me.

It may not be superior in the ways you are referring to - but the student experience at Tufts and Michigan St are very different (and this is not to say Tufts is better...for example if you like big school sports...).

People who have the money to pay for it, are willing to let their children choose where they want to go. For Tufts families, it's going to school in Boston. I often think the people complaining about the tuition are the ones that can't afford it. I get that for people who wish they could hand their kids an open slate to consider colleges....but no need for others to lash back on whether it's worth it or not. And for worthiness - NO - it is not worth going into huge debt to pay for a private college when you have other options that are more affordable.

This is hilarious. Obviously. Which trust fund did you just climb down from to finally understand that?

Yes - it sounds obvious - but there's a point here..... if you are complaining that it isn't worth it just because you can't pay it - then you really have no credibility. It's just jealousy that you don't have the option to pay for whatever feature of a private school might appeal to your child.

You rich white ladies are something. No, it is an objective metric. There is no data showing that a Tufts grad is better positioned than a UVA grad. I would argue that the opposite is true actually based on performance and ranking.

You can talk down to the "poors" all you like. Doesn't give you class or education. Just means that you cannot manage your money and are incapable of having a conversation around doing so

Anonymous wrote:I graduated Tufts many years ago and I can unequivocally say that I became a better writer, thinker, and analyst in the first 6 months than I ever would have at the state flagship to which I was also accepted. My peers at Tufts were geniuses, almost all of them, at least 90% of the class, super smart, and that really challenged me to up my game. I had come from a decent not stellar public HS and I was the big fish there. It was humbling to go to Tufts. Had I gone to the state flagship I would have been the smartest person in the room, or one of, -- that is not ego, that is a fact just looking at the average statistics of the student body. I would have been the one teaching the other kids how to craft a strong essay. At Tufts it was the other way around. I learned tremendously from my peers.

I think the people who can't or won't pay for a college like Tufts want to justify that the college they can and will pay for is just as good. It's alright to think that if it helps you sleep at night, get over your insecurities. But no, most state flagships (aside from UVA) that have been thrown around on this post are not the same.