Posted on 04/19/2014 10:44:12 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
It's a point we've made a million times. We're making it again.
What's the most expensive college in America? Ask Google, Princeton Review, or the Chronicle of Higher Education, and you'll get the same answer: Sarah Lawrence University at $61,236.
It's kind of crazy. No, not (just) the price. It's crazy that when we talk about price, we often only talk about tuition, a sticker shock that only 35 percent of Sarah Lawrence graduates pay in full.
The Sarah Lawrence story is typical. Only a third of full-time students at four-year public and private schools pay the published price at a college. The vast majority pay a discount thanks to grants and other aid. For the typical student at a private non-profit college, the net cost of school is less than half the sticker price.
College tuitions aren't just more expensive than the net cost, as the first graph on this post shows. The price you see is also growing much faster than the price you pay.
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
They simply overcharge the non-minority students so they can give the minority students “scholarships” out of the proceeds.
Not true at Univ of Washington in Seattle.
They get 25,000 applications for Freshman year with 5500 available seats. So there are very few scholarships.
On the other hand my kid just got admitted to a law college with $37,000 yearly tuition but was awarded $20,000 yearly scholarship.
So it varies with the institution.
The “ticket” price is only half the story. This guy doesn’t get it. The whole thing is just like used car sales. They figure out how much you can afford and that becomes the price. The quality of the product sometimes isn’t much better.
A second reason it is only half the story is that there are fees and books and housing issues. My grandaughter earned a full tuition scholarship to NAU. However she was informed that the rest of the “fees” would come to $20,000. So she had to pass it up.
Don’t believe anything you read in the establishment that says “things in America today are not as bad you you think.”
Or, you can have a manipulated economy in which certain people get sweet deals and certain other people pay for their own stuff as well as other peoples' stuff. All for the greater good, doncha know. I think that's basically collectivism and it's all part of government interference in the marketplace. That's America.
What can an over educated/dumbed down liberal with an IED, Instant Unemployment Degree expect if they are graduated?
I put my two kids through college with hardly any trouble at all. I live in Boston area which puts several dozen colleges and universities within commuting distance of my home. I basically had my kids commute from the house and they worked part-time jobs to pay for their books and other expenses. They ended up going to state university where I only had to pay in-state tuition. I forget the exact amount but it was just a few thousand dollars a semester twice a year. It was a breeze and I paid out of pocket so no loans for me either.
Dorm living is what kills you financially.
“A second reason it is only half the story is that there are fees and books and housing issues. My grand daughter earned a full tuition scholarship to NAU. However she was informed that the rest of the “fees” would come to $20,000. So she had to pass it up.”
Then, throw in an extra 5-6 K costs per year for a 4 year degree morphed into 5-6 years, and you have a debt/cost of $100k or more on a full tuition scholarship degree.
Typical liberal garbage. To them, OPM = “free.”
I hate articles that pretend to tell me what I think.
1. “rich privileged Whites” pay full price.
2. “poor oppressed non-Whites” get a subsidy, courtesy of the “rich privileged Whites.”
Actually, it’s become so fueled with excess (loan) money, it’s become like the medical industry - put up a ridiculous bill and get as much as you can legally get. I would like to know the last time a single person (or their insurance company) paid the “list price” for a non-trivial medical procedure.
Hmm... Well I definitely don’t trust that list. Sarah Lawrence is $61,800, whereas SMU is right up there at $60,200. and according to Goolge, the number two school (NYU I think) was around $59k. And I’m positive there are schools a good bit more expensive than SMU.
My oldest is one of those “non-minority students” you mentioned.
The sticker price of my daughter’s college, full four years, was over of $130,000.
We paid less than $25,000.
I’m more amazed at the parents who put their kids up in an off-campus apartment or house. During my tenure as an ROTC instructor at an SEC school, I knew several families who actually bought homes for their children. At the time, it wasn’t a bad investment, I suppose, because most were able to sell the houses later at a profit. But in terms of setting an example for your kids, it only added to the sense of entitlement that is rampant among the Gen-Xers and millenials.
Equally shocking were the number of kids on the six and seven-year plan for a bachelor’s degree. I finished my UG degree (in journalism) in three-and-a-half years and barely broke a sweat. No excuse for anyone who’s a full-time student (and isn’t a varsity athlete) to need more than four years to finish any liberal arts degree. Engineering and the hard sciences are a different story, but I’ve known plenty of students in those majors who graduate in four or five years. That’s because most of those students are bright and have a fair degree of discipline.
We are not in disagreement.
If the grants don't come from that university, the cost is not ‘discounted’. It's just that someone else is paying for it.
“On the other hand my kid just got admitted to a law college with $37,000 yearly tuition but was awarded $20,000 yearly scholarship.”
Same exact thing with my son. Got $23,000 in scholarship money for a $40,000 tuitition. My son did get his because of diversity. He is a white, Jewish male from Texas going to a NE liberal WASP school. I guess they were short Jews from Texas.
The system is a scam. What is happening is the unfortunate people who are stuck paying full tuition (generally middle class white families) are subsidizing everyone else that gets a break because they are a minority, have sexual identity issues, or are semi-pro athletes recruited for the football team.
This has largely forced the middle class out of private colleges, and increasingly from public ones as well, primarily leaving community college for the first two years, then trying to get through the final two years at a public university.
It’s just like Obamanomics with “free stuff” for the majority, and the rest stuck with paying the bill.
I'm with you there, in the sense that a college education is greatly over-valued.
What is happening is the unfortunate people who are stuck paying full tuition (generally middle class white families) are subsidizing everyone else that gets a break because they are a minority, have sexual identity issues, or are semi-pro athletes recruited for the football team.
I don't think the system is that unfair, since no one is coerced into paying for tuition, and kids whose parents can pay full boat often get a break on admittance.
OTOH, I'm completely opposed to taxpayer subsidized student loans.
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