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A. It wasn't that expensive when I attended, though it was 3 or 4 times more expensive than a state college at the time.
B. No one pays sticker......yes and no. If your parent works there (even as a groundskeeper) you get 20% off the tuition per year of employment (cut grass 5 yrs, jr gets to go to college for free). Athletes and 3rd world refugees get very generous scholarships (full or partial). Now the regular kids from middle to upper income homes = full price so the other kids can go for free/ partial scholarship. Seems an odd way to run a university or even a govt.....hmmm
It's not really an odd way to run the university if there's fools willing to pay the price. Why someone would pay that kind of tuition for that kind of university (unless you're an athlete) is beyond me. Even if you're an athlete, I'm pretty sure that you'd get funded at that school
A. It wasn't that expensive when I attended, though it was 3 or 4 times more expensive than a state college at the time.
B. No one pays sticker......yes and no. If your parent works there (even as a groundskeeper) you get 20% off the tuition per year of employment (cut grass 5 yrs, jr gets to go to college for free). Athletes and 3rd world refugees get very generous scholarships (full or partial). Now the regular kids from middle to upper income homes = full price so the other kids can go for free/ partial scholarship. Seems an odd way to run a university or even a govt.....hmmm
If you go to UM and pay full price you got ripped off. You can go to various top public schools that are ranked the same and higher for 20% of the price.
If you go to UM and pay full price you got ripped off. You can go to various top public schools that are ranked the same and higher for 20% of the price.
Ummmm......What if you need the school to be local so you can commute?
Ummmm......What if you need the school to be local so you can commute?
Better be one hell of a reason to pay 5x as much for the same education you could have got somewhere else. South Florida doesn't have any other good schools but I'm not even sure if it would be worth it to go to UM over FIU or FAU for the cost difference.
Well you went to an Ivy and didn't pay much from what I've read. Not quite the same as paying to go to Miami at close to full price.
Yes. Where I live there's a handful of good schools within the surrounding states. If I was looking at full tuition at the closest school (which is not cheap), I would have considered alternate options. But those are my (and my parents) priorities. Others have different priorities.
The thing with NJ in general is that education is expensive here. There's many public and private schools out of state that are cheaper than going to our in-state schools. So there's an incentive for students to go elsewhere.
Going out of state to the school I went to was actually far less costly for me than the majority of in-state options. All depends on how much free money you get.
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