Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/08/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]My youngest just transferred from the Maine College of Art, where tuition and expenses were only about $8K less than Harvard's to the Mass College of Art - state school here - where the tuition is almost $20K lower. So we, too, may be able to afford gas to run the car - and heat the house. :-) On 8/30/06 9:16 PM, "Don Dory" <don.dory@gmail.com> wrote: > Thankfully, my daughters tuition increase was less than the decrease of the > meal plan so we actually can buy an OK bottle of wine and put gass in the > car. :) > > Don > don.dory@gmail.com > > > On 8/30/06, B. D. Colen <bd@bdcolenphoto.com> wrote: >> >> It's more than a big bite - and it's really tough... >> BTW - the $40K's been raised to $60K.... >> >> >> On 8/30/06 9:07 PM, "Don Dory" <don.dory@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> One of my friends is on the board at Harvard. He is very proud that >> anybody >>> accepted at Harvard with a family income of 40K or less gets a free >> ride(you >>> do have some campus job) but I don't think loans are part of the >> equation. >>> But then the older schools have a pretty fabulous endowments with >> Harvard >>> leading the pack so money isn't the issue these days. Selecting >> students >>> that will make a class is a tough act when you have 35000 applicants for >>> 1200 slots and 18000 should do fine at your school. >>> >>> I'm not eating dogfood, but paying tuition is a really big bite at a top >>> league school if you don't want loans. >>> >>> Don >>> don.dory@gmail.com >>> >>> >>> On 8/30/06, Craig Roberts <crgrbrts@verizon.net> wrote: >>>> >>>> I was accepted for admission to Harvard in 1964 but was unable to >> attend >>>> for financial reasons. Even with a miniscule scholarship (scaled, >>>> apparently, to my academic achievements) tuition was still -- if I >>>> recall -- an astronomical $3,500 per semester (though I may have that >>>> figure entirely wrong). For my middle-class parents, this was beyond >>>> all means or reason and the upper limit of my ability to support >> myself, >>>> as I soon learned, was about $1.65 an hour. Besides the inordinate >>>> expense, Mom and Dad argued, they were not keen for me to be >>>> "brainwashed by the Commie teachers" in Cambridge. >>>> >>>> So, I matriculated (among other things) at the $200-a-semester >>>> University of Missouri where I became a Commie journalist (and was >>>> issued a nifty Rolleiflex MX-EVS for a semester). >>>> >>>> Craig >>>> Washington, DC >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Leica Users Group. >>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information