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From: bccarty@whuts.UUCP (Brian C. Carty)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: "Free" Education
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Date: Wed, 10-Jul-85 09:32:54 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 10 09:32:54 1985
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> > 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.

I agree with AMBAR on this one.  After four years of self-sacrifice
(like driving a car with 170,000 miles on it, delaying needed home
repairs, not having a real vacation in ages, not to mention exhausting
life's savings)to pay MIT's horrible costs, my parents were in no condition to
send me to medical school.  If you think the financial aid picture for
undergrads is bleak, you should check out the medical school situation.
When you consider that in-state tuition at New Jersey state medical
schools is $7500/year, it's a wonder anyone from this state ever becomes
a doctor.  I, too, was fortunate enough to be offered a scholarship
(out-of-state school).  Maybe now Mom and Dad can get back to their own lives.

-- 
					Brian C. Carty
					AT&T Bell Laboratories
					Piscataway, NJ