Universities are broke – let’s cut the pointless admin and get back to teaching

Re:Universities are broke – let’s cut the pointless admin an... by RepressedEmu on Friday August 25, 2017 @10:07AM (#15098512)

And then with 10-15k for overpriced student housing since most colleges make mandatory for Freshmen and sometimes even Sophomores. Then you might have to pay 1k a year to pay for a parking spot. 2-5k for cafeteria access. Add it all up and you've got 80k-100k(at 4%-9% interest) for four years at a state school. Its not impossible to get out from under but it represents a large delay, especially for degrees with low ROI

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Re:Universities are broke – let’s cut the pointless admin an... by learc83 on Friday August 25, 2017 @10:40AM (#15098767)

>most colleges

That's not even close to true.

Most public schools don't have residency requirements. The ones that do normally have waivers that are easy to get.

I've also never heard of a school with a residency requirement for sophomores.

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Re:Universities are broke – let’s cut the pointless admin an... by RepressedEmu on Monday August 28, 2017 @11:24AM (#15117146)

Random googling turns up 87 colleges that have residency requirements[1]. So you're right that it isn't "most" but it is also not super rare. I'm just saying its a sneaky way for colleges to bump up costs. Most college students won't go through the work to get a waiver and will just go with the flow. Its like the difference between opt-in and opt-out.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/freshman-resi...

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Re:Universities are broke – let’s cut the pointless admin an... by learc83 on Tuesday August 29, 2017 @05:53PM (#15127918)

The article you posted says that "the vast majority" of those 87 schools are private.

I said most public schools.

I don't really care about the cost of private schools just like I don't care about the cost of private boarding high schools.

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