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by brezina
6928 days ago
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Spot on. If you don't have rich parents you have to go into debt to attend private school. You HAVE to take the real job when you graduate. I chose to be Joe State (@ motoko). I graduated in the black and was free to start a startup. I'm thinking it was a good decision. That and studying engineering. Thanks Dad. |
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That's not really true. Most top private school have really, really generous financial aid programs. And they give the money in outright grants instead of loans.
I come from a very middle-class family - father is a househusband, mother is a teacher. I went to Amherst College, which has a $40K/year sticker price. Amherst picked up more than 2/3 of my tuition in outright grants. It didn't cost me much more to attend than it would've at UMass (well, not quite true, I would've gotten a full ride at UMass, but it wasn't much more than the UMass sticker price). I ended up graduating with $4000 in loans, which I could pay back with internship earnings.