it's crazy how many schools you can go to now for free
We grew up in the wrong time period.
@goat i was pretty lucky as i had scholarships to some degree all the way through. one of my old partners had 3 degrees from u of miami and his wife had the same. 6 degrees from a private school on loans. it was like half a mil 30 years ago
I'm guessing only really poor people qualify.
@goat i was pretty lucky as i had scholarships to some degree all the way through. one of my old partners had 3 degrees from u of miami and his wife had the same. 6 degrees from a private school on loans. it was like half a mil 30 years ago
If I had stuck with academia, I'd be debt-free. All my post-grad studies were tuition-free and came with a teaching stipend. Almost all of my debt was a result of the brilliant idea to give up the life of an academician in order to go to law school.
I'm guessing only really poor people qualify.
At Ohio State, anyone who gets a perfect score on the ACT or SAT gets everything paid for plus a $5,000 research stipend. They're also allowing Ohio residents who have a family income under $100K to go for free.
I'm guessing only really poor people qualify.
At Ohio State, anyone who gets a perfect score on the ACT or SAT gets everything paid for plus a $5,000 research stipend. They're also allowing Ohio residents who have a family income under $100K to go for free.
I'm all for giving the best and brightest a free ride. I think they do something like that in Germany. If you hit a certain score you get to go. Everyone else goes to trade school. We need a system like that here.
In Indiana, retirees can take free for credit classes through Ivy Tech.
Good on you OSU. Tip of the cap.
*Stares intently at IU and Purdue*
If the best schools want to have academic requirements to get in to their school fine but it is really silly to say that anyone has to go to this level or that level of school and limit opportunity. The best thing going in US is opportunity.
I paid for trade school with a loan then got hired by TI. Texas Instruments paid for my EE degree after that. I would say I grew up in the right time compared to now.
@goat i was pretty lucky as i had scholarships to some degree all the way through. one of my old partners had 3 degrees from u of miami and his wife had the same. 6 degrees from a private school on loans. it was like half a mil 30 years ago
If I had stuck with academia, I'd be debt-free. All my post-grad studies were tuition-free and came with a teaching stipend. Almost all of my debt was a result of the brilliant idea to give up the life of an academician in order to go to law school.
Boomers continue to rape the rest of us.In Indiana, retirees can take free for credit classes through Ivy Tech.
At Ohio State, anyone who gets a perfect score on the ACT or SAT gets everything paid for plus a $5,000 research stipend.
Damn, that's a great deal. My son, now in grad school, had perfect SAT scores and was an Eagle Scout. He graduated from HS just 7 years ago. But that perfect SAT got him no money and didn't even get him in to MIT or Caltech. Cornell suited him just fine, so I'm good. But none of the 5 or so schools he got in to gave him much, we paid full tuition minus some work-study aid amounting to under 10% of tuition. IIRC, the schools on his final list were Cornell, Georgia Tech, U. Chicago, Cal Berkeley, and Carnegie Mellon. No Purdue, though his field (math, and maybe more engineering at the time) would've put PU up there fairly high and I would have lived with it.
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