College grads, what was your attendance record in school?

[The_Fool]

You know, I've been fairly interested in Business Theory... do you know some good online sources to read up on this?

This is a good reference I have used.

 

[Handprints]

At a top, US, private, 'arts' college, figuring $10,000/year, that's about $25 per class hour for an 'arts' student.

Surely it must be double that for an Ivy/NESCAC school by now? It was pushing 10K in 1986 for tuition alone...

 

[The_Fool]

Surely it must be double that for an Ivy/NESCAC school by now? It was pushing 10K in 1986 for tuition alone...

Keep going, it's higher.

 

[Joe Wordsworth]

Dismal

 

[Le Jacquelope]

This is a good reference I have used.

Excellent stuff. I recognize the MBO - my boss used to say that's how he got control of this company. Now I think I can learn enough to go back and ask him about the details during one of his boring e-conference calls, lol!

 

[Handprints]

Keep going, it's higher.

Fucking hell! It's USD33,888 at my old college, plus another USD7K for room and board...

I'm usually several addresses ahead of the alumni magazine so I've no-one but myself to blame for not knowing this. That's, what, USD150 an hour for class time? The divine Ms Appleby's education master plan is starting to look awfully good to me now...

Thanks for prompting me to have a look,

H

 

[The_Fool]

Fucking hell! It's USD33,888 at my old college, plus another USD7K for room and board...

I'm usually several addresses ahead of the alumni magazine so I've no-one but myself to blame for not knowing this. That's, what, USD150 an hour for class time? The divine Ms Appleby's education master plan is starting to look awfully good to me now...

Thanks for prompting me to have a look,

H

You are welcome.

Having two in college makes me painfully aware...

 

[Handprints]

You are welcome.

Having two in college makes me painfully aware...

I'm still wincing at the sticker shock. Tell me your kids are both hulking defensive ends keeping boosters' spare Escalades from rusting in the garage!

H

 

[lisa123414]

I busted my rear end, but did not know how to do this properly! I went to class, yes. Just barely graduated with a degree in chem eng. it has served me well.
This whole thread scares the stuffing out of me, as I am looking at four kids to put through school, and my earnings will not make me eligible for need based scholarships. I will need to work until i am 70 - to pay off college for four.... No wonder their dad laughs, no one will come near me with my financial liabilities....

 

[The_Fool]

I'm still wincing at the sticker shock. Tell me your kids are both hulking defensive ends keeping boosters' spare Escalades from rusting in the garage!

H

Not hardly. One is a trumpet player looking to do his Master's in Musical Performance, school yet to be determined. The other is a body builder looking to do undergrad in Education Science followed by a PhD in Physical Therapy, luckily at a local University. Both do work, but they are still on the payroll for the foreseeable future...probably three to five years.

And no, I don't mind as long as I can help keep them for taking on as significant a debt as I had to in order to complete my education.

 

[Handprints]

Not hardly. One is a trumpet player looking to do his Master's in Musical Performance, school yet to be determined. The other is a body builder looking to do undergrad in Education Science followed by a PhD in Physical Therapy, luckily at a local University. Both do work, but they are still on the payroll for the foreseeable future...probably three to five years.

Thank God they've got you. I hope you're drawing up a 3-5 year home improvements and landscaping plan.

And no, I don't mind as long as I can help keep them for taking on as significant a debt as I had to in order to complete my education.

I had a friend who went through two Ivies (six years in total) with parents who, for whatever reason, always seemed to earn about USD1,000 more than the cutoff for financial aid. Hand on heart, he sold two dotcoms before he paid it all off...

H

 

[Pure]

http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S10/64/10Q72/index.xml

present tuition at Princeton is 31K.

however the average scholarship [for those on scholarship] is 25K (see the article).

still, the cost per class (arts) must be in the $75 area, as proposed above.