Going through this now. 17 year old daughter has 99th percentile ACT score, straight A's, and about eight AP/dual enrollment courses under her belt. She will live at home, go to college with a scholarship, all her AP dual enrolment coursework will count, and come out with zero debt. Both her older brothers did the same, but not quite to the level of actually making money off a scholarship.
What are her little dumbass friends that are in the same boat doing? Going away to the "elite" colleges and going into massive debt of course. Sure they'll get a scholarship. that'll cover half the tuition ($50,000 minimum), but that's $25,000 a year, or $100,000. In addition, they are going to be borrowing for dorm, food, and books ($15,000 a year?). Starting out in a $160,000 hole is dumb as fuck.
But, but Hector they say I will earn a miiiiilion dollars a year more over my lifetime if I go to the fancy school. Yeah, well if you put $160,000 in the S&P 500 in 1990 you would have over 3,000,000 today.
For the last year, my mailbox has been full of university advertisements trying to convince my daughter to come to their "elite" college and how great of an experience it would be. We made a game of how soon they mentioned "college experience" and, of course, the diversity photos. One black male, two black females, two white females, one asian female, one or two of mixed or indeterminate race and "gender", and maybe, one white dude (or asian dude) in the background.
Going through this now. 17 year old daughter has 99th percentile ACT score, straight A's, and about eight AP/dual enrollment courses under her belt. She will live at home, go to college with a scholarship, all her AP dual enrolment coursework will count, and come out with zero debt. Both her older brothers did the same, but not quite to the level of actually making money off a scholarship.
What are her little dumbass friends that are in the same boat doing? Going away to the "elite" colleges and going into massive debt of course. Sure they'll get a scholarship. that'll cover half the tuition ($50,000 minimum), but that's $25,000 a year, or $100,000. In addition, they are going to be borrowing for dorm, food, and books ($15,000 a year?). Starting out in a $160,000 hole is dumb as fuck.
But, but Hector they say I will earn a miiiiilion dollars a year more over my lifetime if I go to the fancy school. Yeah, well if you put $160,000 in the S&P 500 in 1990 you would have over 3,000,000 today.
For the last year, my mailbox has been full of university advertisements trying to convince my daughter to come to their "elite" college and how great of an experience it would be. We made a game of how soon they mentioned "college experience" and, of course, the diversity photos. One black male, two black females, two white females, one asian female, one or two of mixed or indeterminate race and "gender", and maybe, one white dude (or asian dude) in the background.
But not one person in a wheelchair? Disgusting!