So your friend's son received aid during his four years. To reply to your post Harvard is well-known for marking up work at least a grade and maybe more. The trust fund kids don't care, nor probably do thier parents. So if your child comes homes with an A from Harvard it has been well-documented that the A is quite likely a B or lower grade at BU for instance. Harvard is also advertised as being a $52,000.00 a year college. Every fall the highest cost schools are always ranted about on TV. So $52,000.00 a year for attending Harvard plus the grades are marked up to make it appear everyone who attends Harvard is genius level was my point, but why I said what I said in reply to Ross stated dilema was, is that spending all that money for the art school doesn't mean your getting a Picasso in return.

Now that I can agree with! ;)

In that field it's where you get your MFA that counts. You can't do much working for anyone else in the art world without one.
Go to an in state school, major in art, and if she nails it 3.5 or better - then you'll talk. If she can't graduate with honors in art from a state school, she ain't got it.
My wife got a 3.5 as an undergrad and was offered an assistantship with a tuition waiver for free ride for her masters (student affairs) where she got a 3.9
Now she's a dean.

There are always exceptions.

A lot of the top-tier private schools are like this, it is a needs-based tuition. It works because of large endowements from all the trust-fund's parents I guess..

of course, all the state schools keep getting slashed, and are still expected to comptete... The % of aid from the State to URI for instance has declined REMARKABLY in the last 30 years, and it is supposed to be the state's flagship school...

Glad she does not look anything like you :)
Her art work is very good :)
Good luck Ross, My daughter just came home and I just borrowed 100K
I will save next year as she will be the RA in the dorm ...yeppy I AAA

These are the things that will happen when a state seems to do whatever is possible to drive businesses out of the state.

I'd wager it is the same at most state schools, I was using URI as an example

i was rather lucky as i steered my boys into the trades. you can always find work if you good and have something on the ball.
i cannot imagine trying to find the moneys to send my boys to school today. it used to be that the pell grants really helped with the lower income people. now it seems that the haves want to keep the havenots out of college.
maybe become a prof. as the salares top 100,000 for 6 mo. of work???