Top Contributors - Barack Obama 2008
Obscene tuition rates equal more in political donations.
Posted on 10/11/2011 8:31:13 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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College professors ain’t cheap and most of them aren’t worth what they’re paid.
—Read something recently that made a good point about trade skill training. Upper collegiate studies are now nothing more than propaganda to certain corporations and kissing up to the professors of the Ivy League schools. Screw them and their Marxist agendas. Get a skill boys and girls. —
Remember the CIO I mentioned? We met in COBOL school.
And the rest, as they say, is history.
Michael Dell also.
Obama went to the number 3 most expensive school and the number 24 most expensive school on the list.
I wonder how he paid his tuition (or who helped him pay for it), or did he get full scholarship?
Three of my six have college degrees. The one with the best grades just finished grad school in engineering (3.9 GPA). She is stressing that there are NO jobs.
Meanwhile, the second oldest has no college and runs his own fuel company and the business is absolutely exploding (in the good way). The other two college educated kids have found jobs in their respective carreers and will be pretty solidly middle or upper middle class the rest of their lives, Lord willing. That means cubicle rat.
RE: This alumnus proposes that if you get a 4-year degree from MIT you’ll get your money back over time. Especially since a) if your family makes < $75K/year tuition is waived, b) 69% of all students get financial aid and c) the average financial aid package there is ~ $39K.
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Isn’t the above aid package available for most of the other schools on that list? MIT shouldn’t be the exception, otherwise, I highly doubt if many students will even consider these schools.
Isn’t that what ENDOWNMENTS are for?
I seem to remember reading an article about Sarah Lawrence a few days ago - I think they were busing people to the Wall Street Idiot Protests or such.
Americans should be boycotting these moronic colleges. They are just too worried about their kids, having swallowed the Kool aid. It’s a corrupt system.
I figured that out when I was a freshman, and was told that it would cost twice as much for “matriculated” credits than for non matriculated ones.
Yes, if you want a degree, you must pay twice as much. So it really isn’t about the education, is it?
I went to one of them. No way is it worth this kind of money.
In my day, tuition, room and board was well under 5K.
RE: I seem to remember reading an article about Sarah Lawrence a few days ago - I think they were busing people to the Wall Street Idiot Protests or such.
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Here it is:
A full, fun college education with real field trips for nearly $60,000/year.
Thanks for posting this thread. This is an excellent documentation for the primary reason to reduce the Taxpayer-Funded Student Loan Program 50 % per year until the checks and balances of a free loan market eliminate the need for tax-supported loans to any students.
Since the 1960’s, Federal Aid to Education has increased to US$ 500,000,000,000.00 per year. The present status is that 46 % of US teachers leave after 5 years, and student scores and skill levels continue to decrease.
The effect of US Federal Aid to Education has thus achieved the opposite of the past, current and future stated goals of its proponents.
Success leaves tracks, and so does US Government failure. I call it “The touch of the Fecal Federal Finger.”
And to think I went to college for $500 per year, including books, paid by the GI Bill. A 100 times increase in 60 years. Investigate the Fed.
—Actually, your Morgan dollars are still worth the same as they ever were. Our currency is worth far less.—
Exactly!
That is the answer to my question, “Why is that?”
Ok, someone please tell me how in the H these “Not-for-profit” 501-c-3 universities are able to make those type of political contributions without jeoparidizing their tax exempt status?
This is one wacky list. Looking the Philadelphia area where I live, I see Drexel is 14th most expensive while Penn is 50th. Seriously?
I can't speak for 'most students'; however I know that I didn't get any special considerations. Not only did I pay tuition, I also got several fee's added for "Sports" for admittance to games I had no interest in attending, to pay for a building that I wasn't permitted to use, as well as several other fee's that had nothing to do with the degree I was pursuing. I would have considered it a favor, if I was only required to pay for the classes I was taking for my degree.
I’m a 1968 NYU grad. Went on a full academic scholarship. Back then, NYU was a pretty good school, but not in the top 50. I got into Columbia, but they offered about half the aid package..so I opted for NYU..I htin that tuition then was $40 a credit....now..it’s one big flat price...Greenwich Villiage was an incredibel place to live in the 60’s..sometimes, looking back, it’s amazing that I survive..
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