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Re:Dartmouth Eliminates Student Loans for Undergraduates by tptacek on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @12:46AM (#31832124)
What college costs $75k/year? My kids go to the flagship state school in Illinois (Champaign), their tuition is less than 1/4 of that, and we pay full freight.
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Re:Dartmouth Eliminates Student Loans for Undergraduates by prepend on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @09:10AM (#31835585)
Dartmouth. The one this article is about.

And many more.

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Re:Dartmouth Eliminates Student Loans for Undergraduates by tptacek on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @10:52AM (#31836761)
So, respectfully, and I'm sorry for the emotive language, but don't fucking go to Dartmouth. The existence of the Bugatti Veyron does not means cars in general are a 7 figure purchase.
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Re:Dartmouth Eliminates Student Loans for Undergraduates by kaesar14 on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @03:21PM (#31840607)
Our parents generation were able to go to colleges like Dartmouth at an affordable rate. Now we are not. There's clearly a problem that needs solving.
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Re:Dartmouth Eliminates Student Loans for Undergraduates by tptacek on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @03:41PM (#31840868)
No, it isn't. Dartmouth is a luxury good. It's undeserving of any public policy consideration. If my parents found it easier to buy a yacht than I do, I wouldn't consider public policy interventions to "correct" the situation; I'd write my parents yacht off as a blip, and move forward.
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