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- Thread starter Vanillalite
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Oh really? Is that the first time? Was UofA for the longest time.
Went to Georgetown (24) for undergrad, and Notre Dame (15) and USC (22) for grad school. Would rank Georgetown above either in most metrics, but well, small sample size :)
My graduate school is in the top 10 for engineering programs (I'm an engineering student) so that's cool
If you're poor enough to have to worry about the cost, it won't be that expensive. I went to one of those and I barely had any loans.
I don't think this is necessarily true. Lots of people who will be ineligible for significant financial aid yet can't afford that (though I have more than one kid so maybe I'm thinking differently)
#48? They must have ranked them before they heard about professor McConaughey , otherwise we would have been higher.
I mean yeah their worthless and not really indicitive of the education. A school might have better teachers and have a lot of success at helping students who aren't already high achievers succeed, but get a low ranking since even letting average students into a school will inevitably hurt your ranking compared to the top schools. I feel like students some of the top schools succeed in spite of poor to average teaching and resources because the students themselves are talented because if they weren't they wouldn't be allowed in
:) Have so many fond memories.
Yeah it varies a lot based on school. Schools like Harvard or Yale with the biggest endowments will fund a large part of the stated tuition cost with grants such that "100% of demonstrated financial need is met" (https://college.harvard.edu/financial-aid/how-aid-works). At other elite schools with similar tuition costs but less in terms of resources, the financial aid packages tend to be much more paltry in terms of grants and mostly consist of (subsidized) loans. Multiple kids makes it that much harder (though it also changes the calculations in terms of need). There is also some variation in terms of what schools look at it in terms of assets. I started undergrad just as my father lost his pension and had his pay cut by over 50%. The financial aid calculation of need, however, significantly lagged the ground truth of my family's financial situation and by my second year it was touch and go as to whether I would be able to continue (thankfully I was able to).
Yup, glad to see that Colorado School of Mines is still full of angry white dudes .