[CAluvdubya]

We have put two children through college. The problem with cost, as I see it, is the required courses. Both of my kids had to take classes to fulfill "diverse" and "social" credits. These classes had absolutely nothing to do with their degrees (both technical). If the University had required only classes that related to their degrees, the costs would have been much lower both in tuition and living expenses! Of course, I do live in Calif. and we MUST be diverse, doncha know!

[tfecw]

Should have sent them to a technical school :)

i went to RPI for Comp Scie my required were something in the order of 4 math classes, 8 comp sci classes, 2 general science classes, 2 humanities. Humanities is defined as anything not in your core major. So i could use 2 mechanical engineering classes as my humanities. Then the rest are free electives so i could choose to continue which ever paths i wanted