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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: jbe who wrote (53441)8/29/1999 11:41:00 PM
From: nihil  Read Replies (2) of 108807
 
Joan,

UHawaii is a very cheap school, getting more expensive, but still about $5000 a year tuition and fees. Honolulu doesn't have many jobs. But all of my 120 students this semester, except six are working full or part-time. At many expensive highly selective schools it is quite difficult to make enough working to pay your way through probably about $30,000 grand a year, but loans and scholarships are generally available.
You will recall that the rich eastern schools had to settle a antitrust suit because they conspired to equalize the deals they made to students ("to make it possible for them to choose the school they liked best"). MIT refused to deal. But these schools are simply engaged in price discrimination. They redistribute from the rich kids to the poor (via scholarships).
But god help you if you are one whose excellence isn't measured by SAT or ACT. You can't even buy your way into a great school.
I believe that universities are doomed. Many profs (especially in English) are stark raving mad. Most good students want great careers (i.e. trade schools). Any one who wants an education can read some books and join a discussion group on the web. Web degrees are going to be so cheap that state universities will disappear since no one wants to subsidize them.
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