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Re:On average, skipping college and investing tuition costs ... by HarryHirsch on Sunday June 04, 2017 @06:02PM (#14483829)
More important: if tuition were free you could fail your students. With the present model there is a perverse incentive to pass everyone no matter what because they pay the salary.
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Re:On average, skipping college and investing tuition costs ... by mrep on Sunday June 04, 2017 @06:10PM (#14483895)
Maybe for ivy league schools but there are lots of others that do not grade inflate [1].

[1]: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/grade-inflation-colleges-with-th...

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Re:On average, skipping college and investing tuition costs ... by tnecniv on Monday June 05, 2017 @03:20PM (#14490534)
The other factor being that colleges want to boast about their 99% four year graduation rate.
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Re:On average, skipping college and investing tuition costs ... by linkregister on Monday June 05, 2017 @01:37AM (#14485450)
This is an interesting hypothesis. Do you have any information to indicate it is a trend?
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