Filed under: College, College Students, Life, Tuition, University
Does anyone else adore the Catch-22 of needing a college education in order to be more marketable in a crappy economy, but more and more people aren’t able to afford said education because the economy is crappy and budget cuts are rampant and it’s more difficult to get a good student loan? Perhaps we could all off-ramp to our own little islands for a while and just eat mangoes and weave hammocks and increase our sunlight-sourced vitamin D intake.
Here’s the shiny chart and the happy article that goes with it:
Posted by Alexa Harrington
I wrote about this today. The dark secret of college admissions is that needing aid puts you at a disadvantage in admission. When I hear people complain about “affirmative action” in college admissions I smirk. The biggest beneficiary of our system of college admission are not under-represented groups, but wealthy students, especially wealthy legacy students…
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[...] I realize that my situation is a lucky one, and that most young adults are either on their own to pay for college, or, if their parents tried to save, were ultimately unable to save enough to compensate for the recession and/or the staggering increase in tuition rates. Everyone seems to be in agreement that paying for college bites. But if you can at all manage it, in any way, then for god’s sake, go to school. Because I cannot live in a world where going to college is a mistake. [...]
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