My daughter just started the third grade, which means we’re starting to think about colleges for her. I’m glad that Wes is still ranked high by USN&WR, Washington Monthly and, of course, High Times because I would love to send her there if she wanted to go, but I can’t get past the fact that an education which cost my parents around $17,500 per year two decades ago (a fortune back then) now costs nearly $50,000, almost 200% more. What is the justification for such an astronomical tuition increase in so short a time? Fancy new buildings? Please investigate. I’m sure your own parents would appreciate the answers too.
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You can thank the Liberals who tried to get every student into college and the government for providing grants and loans.
What both groups fail the see is that having a large number of college graduates is hazardous to the economy.
When once you could get a job flipping burgers with a HS diploma, you now need a bachelors for that. “But fuck that!” says the college academics. I also have a feeling college professors and other staff don’t care about the ailing economy. They’re loving the huge influx of college undergrads because it fills their bank accounts.
Banks also love it because more people will be in debt. The Banksters’ ultimate dream is to have the entire population but themselves in eternal debt. It’s funny how you academics hate big businesses, yet are providing them with more money to thrive,What I also had to learn the hard way was that Liberals don’t really care about the poor. Someone told me a funny story detailing the difference between Conservatives and Liberals:
A Conservative sees a homeless man in a street. He takes out his wallet and gives him all the bills in his wallet and a business card. He tells the homeless man to meet him tomorrow and he’ll provide him with a job.
A Liberal was watching and said to himself, “Gee, that was nice”. So he walks up to the two men and reaches into the Conservative man’s pocket to take out the remaining bills and hands it to the poor.
Here’s also a funny way of how colleges make their prices:
College: Ok, the total price will be $35,000.
Government steps in to provide $15,000 in grants and loans.
College: Ok, the total price will be $50,000 now.
And last but not least, the price tags are there to scare off the majority of kids. Since you’re such a prestige-whore, why don’t I give you an incentive to pay the full amount? If you lower the price, you’re bound the lower the rankings.
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@ anon: How do you expect the United States to stay competitive in the global economy if its workforce isn’t educated? And the last time I checked, conservatives are a fan of private enterprise and the market economy which happen to thrive on competition, intellectual and otherwise.
The reason why college tuition is so high is because colleges compete with other colleges for the best applicants as much as applicants compete to get in. So they build shinier facilities and hire renown professors (who are usually better at their field than at teaching) in order to increase their place in a bullshit ranking system. Sadly, there is a positive correlation between the “prestige” of a school and future salaries. So instead of picking a suitable school, people fight for the name brand.
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Anyone wanting to become a businessman or a lawyer or doctor is much better off going to a cheap state school in the state they intend to live and getting a high grade point average. GPA and GMAT/LSAT/MCAT are the only factors that matter for getting into a professional graduate school. Where you studied as an undergraduate does not matter.
Graduating from a prestigious undergraduate school like Wesleyan may be good for your ego, but it is almost never the right choice for your life and future.
As a high school student I was brainwashed into thinking I had to go to the best possible college I could get into. That was understandable, considering that everyone in my family for several generations had gone to Harvard. I didn’t realize at the time that a Wesleyan degree would not position me any better in the real wold than a degree from the University of California.
I am now in law school in California. I can assure you can legal employers could not care less where I studied as an undergraduate.
The only reason I can see it possibly being worth it going to Wesleyan is if you are sure you want to get a PhD and teach. Most people, even Wesleyan students, do not fall into this category.
Wesleyan should do the right thing and dramatically cut the size of the student body and faculty and become a college exclusively devoted to training future academics. That is the only sustainable path.
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@ ’12
Seriously, if the Liberals actually made the schools teach instead of indoctrinating young mind, we can still be competitive globally.
How is having half of the population having bachelors going to help us compete if the person with the bachelor has as much intelligence or knowledge as a typical high school graduate from 40 years ago?
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@ ’12 again
Correlation does not equal cause.
SAT scores, not college prestige, are a much better indicator of future salary.
Yes, it’s true that on average, a graduate from a prestigious college will make more. But there’s a catch.
A person who got into, let’s say, Harvard but decided to go to a local state university will most likely end up making the same amount as a Harvard grad. -
Source:
http://www.psychologicalscience.org/media/releases/2006/pr060222.cfm
SAT gauges more than Collegiate Success
“top .01 percentile of their age group on the SAT before age 13 were more likely than a comparison group of graduate students to later achieve a MD degree, earn an annual salary of at least $100,000, or secure a tenure-track position in a top-50 ranked institution.”
C’mon Liberals. BUT BUT BUT… THE SAT IS A SCAM!!! WHAAWHAAWHAA! IT DOESN’T TEST ANYTHING!!! WHAAWHAAWHAA!!! IQ IS A SOCIAL CONSTRUCT!!! WHAAWHAAWHAA!!!
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Also, to all you Libs who’ll probably respond that the SAT only measures income, maybe the reason why rich kids get higher SAT scores may be because they’re just smarter on average?
There is a huge correlation between income and IQ. Rich parents are likely to pass down their genes for higher intelligence.
Has that ever crossed your mind?
And this is coming from a poor kid whose parents make less than $40,000/year. -
Martin Benjamin, is that you? Give it a rest. Not everything is about politics.
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Luke, you’re still as naive as ever. Everything can be traced back to Liberals.
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Anonymous, I don’t know who you are, but you better knock that shit off, bastard. You’re not me!
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