Kids.......

[Swimmer]

For $52,000.00 a year you can go to Harvard and be a zero, but get out with thier degree and get a job paying $250,000.00 a year because of where you went to school, not if you are qualified for anything.

Ross I take it the ex-wife doesn't chip in at all?

NEBE, where did you go to school?

[gf2020]

Originally Posted by Swimmer

For $52,000.00 a year you can go to Harvard and be a zero, but get out with thier degree and get a job paying $250,000.00 a year because of where you went to school, not if you are qualified for anything.

Please show me the evidence to support this statement. My wife's best friend's oldest son graduates from Harvard in a couple weeks. He did not pay $52,000 per year and he is not making $250,000 a year in the biotech job he is starting this summer.

For what it's worth, Harvard is pretty affordable - if you can get in. They instituted a new tuition plan 4 or 5 years ago where families pay annual tuition, room and board of 10% of gross earnings for those earning between $120,000 and $180,000 per year, for example.

[Swimmer]

Originally Posted by gf2020

Please show me the evidence to support this statement. My wife's best friend's oldest son graduates from Harvard in a couple weeks. He did not pay $52,000 per year and he is not making $250,000 a year in the biotech job he is starting this summer.

For what it's worth, Harvard is pretty affordable - if you can get in. They instituted a new tuition plan 4 or 5 years ago where families pay annual tuition, room and board of 10% of gross earnings for those earning between $120,000 and $180,000 per year, for example.

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.

[gf2020]

Originally Posted by Swimmer

...spending all that money for the art school doesn't mean your getting a Picasso in return.

Now that I can agree with!

[RIROCKHOUND]

Originally Posted by gf2020

For what it's worth, Harvard is pretty affordable - if you can get in. They instituted a new tuition plan 4 or 5 years ago where families pay annual tuition, room and board of 10% of gross earnings for those earning between $120,000 and $180,000 per year, for example.

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...

[JohnnyD]

Originally Posted by RIROCKHOUND

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...

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

[RIROCKHOUND]

Originally Posted by JohnnyD

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