College Choice Based on Cost

External Since: Jun 22, 2003 Posts: 116

"rick++" <rick303.TakeThisOut@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Today's NY Times mentions that ivies and top state schools are losing the
> battle with economic diversity. Despite affirmative action and its thinly

Not "despite." AA/Diversity often means rich Black applicants get
preferenced over poor white kids.

> disguised legal substitutes, the fraction of familes in the the top 5% of
> income (define as $150K in 2004) is increasing.

External Since: Jun 22, 2003 Posts: 116

"somebody" <me.RemoveThis@privacy.net> wrote
> "octo" <octogenarian.RemoveThis@hotmail.com> wrote
> >
> > Harvard charged 5K and 40K in 1974 to 2004.
> > How much a Berkeley Hills or Piedmont home cost in 1974 and 2004?
>
> What does a cost of a home have to do with the cost of a college tuition?
>
> >
> > I still maintain that parents should let the children pick the best
> > fit college and ignore the cost. It is the childrens life, not the
> > parents any more.
>
> You keep saying ignore the cost. Would you pay 40k+ to go to USC (Univ of
> Southern Calif) when you could go to Berkeley for half the cost (unles you
> are studying film or art or some such USC specialty) ? I submit to you
that
> Harvard is a special case, but other private colleges (all costing roughly
> 36-42k) does make one wonder about the worth of the high dollar amount.
Or
> would you pay 40k to go to Middlebury College (to pick an East Coast
> example) when you can go to the College of William and Mary or a UVa for
> half the cost even as a non-Va resident.

What Octo (or the person who most probably posted on this ng previously
using another pseudonym) is saying that it is foolish to choose a college
based on the expected cost over the next four years while ignoring the
expected return over the lifetime of the graduate.

For a Cal resident choosing Berkeley over Stanford appears to be a
no-brainer when considering only the cost.

Abe