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[doyle]

I'm looking around Stanford's website for a Connor fic. Clicky clicky onto the law school and I read:

Local transportation, clothing, recreation, and the like are more variable items, but most single students will find that they need to budget a total of at least $50,000 for the school year. For a married student, the minimum budget will be about $60,000. Tuition is due at registration in September and January.

...holy *shit*. $50,000? That's £27,000! Or, to put it another way, more than ten times what the last university year cost me, including 12 months rent.

The £16,000 ($30,000) student loan debt I'll have when I graduate suddenly doesn't seem quite so bad.

ETA: Also, the jvtl_project (Jossverse timeline project) makes my canon-geek heart go squee.

And in my head Stanford!Connor is studying anthropological science.

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[makd.livejournal.com]

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....

[owl]

That's odd, considering that a lot of Americans seem to go to college compared to here. And your high school education isn't as good as ours *pats in sympathy*