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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.

Comments

[quinn222.livejournal.com]

My cousin's tuition is $45,000 a year. It's frightening.

[viciouswishes.livejournal.com]

Aren't you lucky with the tuition. ;) I go to a small, private college, not as prestigious as Standford, but mine's still $30,000 a year.

[moireach.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's entirely insane. People in the UK (and pretty much everywhere not the US) are so, so lucky. Which is why I was sympathetic about the top-up fees thing last year but definitely not outraged like everyone else. (I'm currently paying twice as much as a UK student for my degree and approximately a quarter of what I'd pay for it in the US.)

[kimera.livejournal.com]

Sheez. And I had a hard time coming up with $10,000 last year.

[elz.livejournal.com]

Yep, my undergrad tuition was over $30,000, and that was a couple of years ago. I think law school tuitions are a little higher, but when you add in books (which can run into the thousands of dollars on their own) and food and regular cost-of-living stuff, it's still pretty mind-boggling.

[slackerace.livejournal.com]

An ivy league US education will run you $150,000 for four years. A public state uni can start at about $4,000 a year for tuition. If you're from out of state, then you pay more. Sometimes much more.

[octopedingenue]

My parents and I pay about $20,000 a year for my college tuition (NOT counting the $14,000 a year scholarship I get from the school itself). Meh.

[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....

[nwhepcat.livejournal.com]

Yipe.

But I mainly came in to say: I am stupid. My first thought was, "Why would a Connor fic be on the Stanford website?" I am very very very tired.

[naeara.livejournal.com]

Wow. That's insane! I'm in Canada and my uni tuition was about $1200 CAD per year. Add in books and it was still probably only about $2000. Everyone always bitches about how expensive it is too.

[thefakeheadline.livejournal.com]

Yep, sounds about right. :/ I went to a private college for two years on a full-tuition scholarship, and my family still had to pay nearly $10,000/year just for room and board. After I lost the scholarship it was either go into debt $50,000 for my two remaining years' tuition, or else transfer to a state school. I come from a cheap, cheap family, so you can probably guess which I chose. *g*

But, yes. It's a *crazy* system, definitely. Makes me wonder what our politicians think would be so bad about bringing in a bit of socialism...

[chicken-cem.livejournal.com]

Given these shocking facts, it is absolutely no surprise that so many Americans are in huge debt and declare bankruptcy.

See, the student loans have fairly low interest (2%-3%), so even though one can rack up $200,000 of student loan debt, one might pay it off some day.

But most normal students also have no actual cash (due to very low pay from those wordk-study jobs), so they get credit cards (and those evil credit card companies set up tables on the first day of college to lure in naive students). If one also builds up, say, $50,000 in credit card debt (whichh average 13% to 28% interest), what you end with is a ton of students, millions, who will either be in debt for the rest of their lives or will have to declare bankruptcy.

Meanwhile, all the stupid rich kids from famous and/or wealthy families have their wealthy daddies pay all the tuition (think, George W. going to Yale and his rich daddy the other George easily paying the tuition).

[cicer.livejournal.com]

*winces* Yeah, colleges in the US are insanely expensive. I'm currently doing two years of community college, looking to transfer to a four-year university and the price range seems to be $20,000 to $35,000 a year. Ouch. And the Ivy League schools can easily cost $40,000 to $50,000.

Another great example of the fantastic American education system.