My daughter went to a public, State college. It cost ~$15,000/year for tuition, room & board, books, etc. Friends of ours sent their daughter to a private college (Hofstra University. It drove them into near-bankruptcy. Hofstra, while a good college, is NOT Stanford, yet costs the same. After four years, the parents owed something like $250,000.
Higher education is not considered a necessity in the U.S.; it's considered a privilege, and folks pay through the nose....
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ninetydegrees
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on 2004-07-15 06:54 pm (UTC)Higher education is not considered a necessity in the U.S.; it's considered a privilege, and folks pay through the nose....