Yes, our youngest daughter was accepted to virtually all of the schools mentioned. She ended up going to Boston University and obtaining a Degree, Magna Cum Laude, in Performance Music (Opera). She’s working as a Marketing Manager. Never did squat with her “degree.” And no one in her family paid off anyone for her to gain admittance, but we’re are still paying on our home mortgage for her tuition.
The whole university “system” across the country is predicated on liberating parents life savings (or student loans) for mostly useless degrees from equally useless “professors” (who earn inordinate salaries far beyond their worth as teachers) who spend a large portion of each year living large off of the money they earn in some far off place.
Not for nothing but you could have said no. I’m sure UMass has a similar program for a lot less.
“Not for nothing but you could have said no. I’m sure UMass has a similar program for a lot less.”
We live in CA. The only reason she went to Boston was to go to BU. She was also accepted to USC and UC Irvine here. She wanted a school that had a “name” in training people for the Opera. She is very talented, but ended up not wanting the kind of lifestyle that would have been required to make a successful career. Mostly because it would have involved living in Europe.