Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site ihlpg.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!ihlpg!jeand From: jeand@ihlpg.UUCP (AMBAR) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: "Free" Education Message-ID: <784@ihlpg.UUCP> Date: Tue, 9-Jul-85 11:20:31 EDT Article-I.D.: ihlpg.784 Posted: Tue Jul 9 11:20:31 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 11-Jul-85 07:16:08 EDT References: <15518@watmath.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 20 > Actually, it should be noted that for many, education IS free. None of the > best (by academic standards) have to pay tuition fees. Certainly not at > grad school. NONE??? Are you living in a dream world? Sure, I am fortunate to have recieved a scholarship from Bell Labs to MIT. How about the hundreds of other (equally able) entering freshman who are mortgaging their souls in order to go there? MIT offered me work/study in order to reduce my parent's cost to *only* 12,000. When my father saw that, he laughed. We all knew that there was no way we could come up with that kind of money, CSS analysis or no. Let's face facts: I know entirely too many people with SAT's in the same range as mine who are attending the nearest state university (or, gag, community college) simply because they CANNOT afford anything else. -- AMBAR {the known universe}!ihnp4!ihlpg!jeand "You shouldn't let people drive you crazy when you know it's within walking distance."