Some schools, that aren’t even in the top 20, have many full pay students. There must be a reason!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Off the top of my head, the top 30 or so LACs and the top 20 or so national universities. But what my kid had to say could potentially change that.

Moneybags

From what I've seen over my lifetime, a better ROI is likely when the fit is right.

Anonymous wrote:Off the top of my head, the top 30 or so LACs and the top 20 or so national universities. But what my kid had to say could potentially change that.

Moneybags

Off the top of my head, the top 30 or so LACs and the top 20 or so national universities. But what my kid had to say could potentially change that.

Anonymous wrote:good luck full paying for degrees like english communication at whatever schools

You could use a few “English communication” classes yourself

Anonymous wrote:Did any of the people posting this go to these schools? What sort of deluded thinking is this? Your kid can only go to these 7 or so schools? So, no college is better than paying for a college that isn’t an Ivy? Insane.

Maybe they’ll only go to schools that offer merit? That’s a PRETTY big difference between Yale and Gettysburg.

Did any of the people posting this go to these schools? What sort of deluded thinking is this? Your kid can only go to these 7 or so schools? So, no college is better than paying for a college that isn’t an Ivy? Insane.

Any school my child got into and wanted to go to. College is important. I went to a top college. My wife went to a top college. We see tons of people personally and professionally who didn’t. I hope my children get into great schools, but if they don’t, I still want them going to college.

Anonymous wrote:Only:
Harvard
Yale
Princeton
Stanford
MIT
UPenn
CalTech
Duke

Take out Duke and switch Penn to Wharton, then good list

Anonymous wrote:good luck full paying for degrees like english communication at whatever schools

Most kids from aren’t UMC families aren’t going to elite schools to study that. Only the rich kids go to elite schools for that, and the few regular kids who study it probably try their hand at a few pre-professional pathways as well

good luck full paying for degrees like english communication at whatever schools

Only:
Harvard
Yale
Princeton
Stanford
MIT
UPenn
CalTech
Duke

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Anonymous wrote:HPSM, Caltech, Wharton, Duke, Yale, and if my kid wants a tight-knit college experience, Dartmouth and Williams.

+1

Why is Duke included in this

Anonymous wrote:HPSM, Caltech, Wharton, Duke, Yale, and if my kid wants a tight-knit college experience, Dartmouth and Williams.

+1

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Anonymous wrote:Duke does not have an endowment of $30 billion, lmao.

Duke boosters are insane.

It’s referring to the link that showed top schools by asset base, not endowment. Assets include things like land, which endowment doesn’t. Stanford doesn’t have a $75B endowment, but its asset base is $75B.

Why do schools narrow endowment in the way colleges do in the US to just the managed $$?
Stanford, for example, could sell housing or buildings not even on its main campus for massive $$. Asset base provides a more accurate view.