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Re:Amazon to pay full college tuition for its front-line emp... by tinyhouse on Thursday September 09, 2021 @11:53AM (#28471042)
Of course Dartmouth won't. Why would Amazon pay ridiculous amount of money for the same education you can get much cheaper somewhere else? (e.g., Coursera or many state universities). This program is about people gaining useful skills to advance their careers, not about fancy diplomas and networking. Do you think that Dartmouth or any elite school can better teach someone intro to coding than thousands of other legit places?

Update: this is getting downvoted. I guess many Dartmouth graduates here with ego...

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Re:Amazon to pay full college tuition for its front-line emp... by krastanov on Thursday September 09, 2021 @12:01PM (#28471170)
HN generally considers it distasteful to complain about downvotes, especially in uninformed ways. The downvotes are because of your false claims about the cost of study at these universities. Check here https://financialaid.dartmouth.edu/cost-attendance/myintuiti... and put in the typical situation of a frontline amazon worker and see how much they would be expected to actually pay after the financial aid is subtracted (it will be close to zero, I just checked).

Universities, especially prestigious ones are expensive in the US. But the prestigious ones also happen to have incredibly good financial aid options. The problem is the classist system that makes it difficult for a low-income person to have the CV that lets them get admitted. Paying the rest after being admitted is comparatively easy (both for the rich and for the poor). It is the middle class that is in a bit uncomfortable situation as the financial aid can still have aggressive cutoffs.

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Re:Amazon to pay full college tuition for its front-line emp... by tinyhouse on Thursday September 09, 2021 @01:27PM (#28472224)
Financial aid is irrelevant here because Amazon is the one paying. Dartmouth not gonna give Amazon financial aid. If someone else pays your tuition you not gonna apply for financial aid.
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