If you care about diversity, don't just hire from the same five schools

Re:If you care about diversity, don't just hire from the sam... by logfromblammo on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @03:39PM (#15544572)

I didn't get in to MIT, but if I had, it's unlikely I would have attended, due to financial reasons. I went to a state school, and had a handful of scholarships to help me out.

In retrospect, I would have been better off applying to UIUC, Purdue, or CMU, but quite a lot of the decisions I made when young would have turned out differently if I knew then what I know now.

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Re:If you care about diversity, don't just hire from the sam... by jtmcmc on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @05:46PM (#15545514)

I don't know when you applied but my understanding is that MIT http://news.mit.edu/2008/tuition-0307 this is from 2008 presumably that number has gone up (stanford is now free for families earning under 125k for instance)

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Re:If you care about diversity, don't just hire from the sam... by logfromblammo on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @06:12PM (#15545675)

It would have been around 1994 and 1995. Historic data say that my 4-year (sticker price) total would have been just a bit over $90k (equivalent to $133k in 2017 dollars) for tuition alone. I don't have the receipts, but I think my parents only had to pay about a quarter of that, including non-tuition expenses, to a markedly less prestigious school.

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