in most senses it is 'a better school' but there are lots of people who should probably go to suny buffalo
― iatee, Thursday, 26 April 2012 03:52 (twelve years ago) link
yeah upthread a while back there was some discussion of NYU and I looked up some numbers and its average % of demonstrated student financial need met by financial aid (grants + work-study + subsidized loan approvals) was 70%. Compared to 90-100% of demonstrated need met for all the other places I looked up (so like some pseudorandom sampling of SLACs, flagship publics, and private unis).
― raw feel vegan (silby), Thursday, 26 April 2012 04:12 (twelve years ago) link
which is to say a student from a family that can exactly afford their FAFSA-calculated EFC every year, including maxed subsidized loans, attending NYU could easily find themselves taking on $10,000 or more in private debt over four years that they'd avoid at NYU's putative peer institutions. The situation is more dramatic for students financing a private college education almost entirely through private debt.
― raw feel vegan (silby), Thursday, 26 April 2012 04:19 (twelve years ago) link
(that is in addition to the roughly $24,000 max subsidized student loans over four years)
― raw feel vegan (silby), Thursday, 26 April 2012 04:20 (twelve years ago) link
It occurs to me that during the endless college-application counseling and preparation I was provided with during high school, the topic of debt probably never got brought up.
― raw feel vegan (silby), Thursday, 26 April 2012 04:24 (twelve years ago) link
It sort of seems like there is this hole that middle-class families can fall into in the financial aid landscape where if you are from a family that has a high-ish annual income but your parents haven't been saving for your education or aren't interested in paying for it, the EFC can way overshoot what your family is actually able and willing to pay. Whereas if your parents' household income is closer to 35 than 95 (eyeballing here), plenty of private institutions will be able to cover like 75%+ of your tuition in grants, and if it's like in the 200+ range then you are a full pay student and likely nobody involved is blinking an eye.
I recall there was some publicity attached to Harvard announcing some years ago up front that families making up to I think $60,000 would get a full grant aid package from Harvard. Just as another angle on the weirdness of the market.
― raw feel vegan (silby), Thursday, 26 April 2012 04:31 (twelve years ago) link
xp - yeah when i was applying to colleges the actual cost of attending was never, ever discussed by anyone. like you went to the 'best' school that you got into end of story.
― Lamp, Thursday, 26 April 2012 04:33 (twelve years ago) link
I went to the least prestigious school that I got into and it was awesome.
― raw feel vegan (silby), Thursday, 26 April 2012 04:36 (twelve years ago) link
everything silby's said otm
another quirk: a lot of the reason my efc was super low was that my parents were divorced
― iatee, Thursday, 26 April 2012 04:36 (twelve years ago) link
I'm curious if my high school just had zero college counseling (despite being loaded with AP classes and now a IB school - I graduated with 21 possible AP credits IIRC and was nowhere close to having the most) or if I just missed out on it via fucking off a lot.kinda lucked out - I got into a private liberal arts college planning to get a poli sci degree, but had zero idea how to navigate financial aid so I probably saved myself $100k in debt for what would have turned into a history degree
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, 26 April 2012 04:37 (twelve years ago) link
It sort of seems like there is this hole that middle-class families can fall into in the financial aid landscape where if you are from a family that has a high-ish annual income but your parents haven't been saving for your education or aren't interested in paying for it, the EFC can way overshoot what your family is actually able and willing to pay.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, 26 April 2012 04:40 (twelve years ago) link
a lot of families in the 95 zone could ~game the system~ by getting divorced, no joke xp
― iatee, Thursday, 26 April 2012 04:40 (twelve years ago) link
EFC also pounds working students in the ass, if you can't jump through the hoops to prove absolute independence 50% of your income is expected to go toward school IIRC (until you're 24-25)
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, 26 April 2012 04:41 (twelve years ago) link
http://media.mmgdailies.topscms.com/images/5b/3f/9999f14e43b58037de3c1fa6668d.jpg
The university belongs to us, those who teach, learn, research, council, clean, and create community. Together we can and do make the university work.But today this university is in crisis. The neoliberal restructuring of post-secondary education seeks to further embed market logic and corporate-style management into the academy, killing consultation, autonomy and collective decision-making. The salaries of university presidents and the ranks of administrators swell, but the people the university is supposed to serve — students — are offered assembly-line education as class sizes grow, faculty is over-worked, and teaching positions become increasingly precarious. International students and scholars seeking post-secondary or graduate education are treated as cash cows rather than as people who might contribute to both research and society. Debt-burdened students are seen as captive markets by administrators, while faculty is encouraged to leverage public funds for private research on behalf of corporate sponsors.
But today this university is in crisis. The neoliberal restructuring of post-secondary education seeks to further embed market logic and corporate-style management into the academy, killing consultation, autonomy and collective decision-making. The salaries of university presidents and the ranks of administrators swell, but the people the university is supposed to serve — students — are offered assembly-line education as class sizes grow, faculty is over-worked, and teaching positions become increasingly precarious. International students and scholars seeking post-secondary or graduate education are treated as cash cows rather than as people who might contribute to both research and society. Debt-burdened students are seen as captive markets by administrators, while faculty is encouraged to leverage public funds for private research on behalf of corporate sponsors.
http://torontoedufactory.wordpress.com/
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 26 April 2012 09:23 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-04-19/bubble-u-dot-high-point-university
― iatee, Thursday, 26 April 2012 16:07 (twelve years ago) link
Jesus.
― raw feel vegan (silby), Thursday, 26 April 2012 17:02 (twelve years ago) link
this is the most depressing thread on ilx
― Mordy, Thursday, 26 April 2012 17:11 (twelve years ago) link
I was curious so I looked to see what Harvard's tuition is now, and HOLY FUCK
― I'M THAT POSTA, AAAAAAAAAH (DJP), Thursday, 26 April 2012 17:15 (twelve years ago) link
tuition costs alone are more than what the entirety of tuition, room, board and fees were when I was an undergrad
if I ever have kids, they will likely end up becoming carpenters
― I'M THAT POSTA, AAAAAAAAAH (DJP), Thursday, 26 April 2012 17:16 (twelve years ago) link
harvard's not even in the top 25 most expensive college either
― iatee, Thursday, 26 April 2012 17:20 (twelve years ago) link
colleges
more nyu:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/26/opinion/expand-minds-not-the-nyu-campus.html?hp
― iatee, Thursday, 26 April 2012 19:22 (twelve years ago) link
(shining iatee-bat symbol)
have u read this? http://www.salon.com/2012/04/26/will_that_starbucks_last/
― Mordy, Friday, 27 April 2012 02:15 (twelve years ago) link
I looked at that book, it didn't look particularly scholarly, there are some things he says that are not false tho
― iatee, Friday, 27 April 2012 02:56 (twelve years ago) link
w/r/t generational tastes at least
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303978104577364120264435092.html?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTTopStories#
― iatee, Saturday, 28 April 2012 23:23 (twelve years ago) link
http://keepcaliforniaspromise.org/469/soon-every-faculty-member-will-have-a-personal-senior-manager
― iatee, Monday, 30 April 2012 00:57 (twelve years ago) link
Ok I think this belongs here:
http://moneyland.time.com/2012/05/02/the-beginning-of-the-end-of-the-unpaid-internship-as-we-know-it/?iid=pf-main-lede?xid=rss-topstories&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:%20time/topstories%20%28TIME:%20Top%20Stories%29
― Scott, bass player for Tenth Avenue North (Hurting 2), Monday, 7 May 2012 01:25 (twelve years ago) link
In August 2011, when Diana Wang began her seventh unpaid internship, this time at Harper’s Bazaar, the legendary high-end fashion magazine, she figured that her previous six internships – at a modeling agency, a PR firm, a jewelry designer, a magazine, an art gallery and a state governor’s office – had prepared her for the demands of New York’s fashion world.
“I was so determined to make this one really worth my while,” says the 28-year-old Wang, who moved from Columbus, Ohio, to New York, where she was living with her boyfriend (also working as an unpaid intern at one point) and living off of her savings. “I knew I couldn’t do anymore internships after this.”
As it turned out, Wang’s internship was just like many of the thousands of others: unrewarding in terms of both pay and marketable experience — not to mention the lack of a job offer. In fact, the only difference between her internship and most others was what happened about a month after it ended. Wang sued.
― Scott, bass player for Tenth Avenue North (Hurting 2), Monday, 7 May 2012 14:26 (twelve years ago) link
http://chronicle.com/article/From-Graduate-School-to/131795/
― s.clover, Monday, 7 May 2012 21:38 (twelve years ago) link
Top cities for new college grads 2012
happy with this, esp. #4
― Euler, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 02:18 (twelve years ago) link
i love this writer and this is a thread relevant piece likely to make op crazy:http://www.salon.com/2012/06/23/moving_home_the_new_key_to_success/
― Mordy, Sunday, 24 June 2012 01:06 (eleven years ago) link
yeah I saw that. it's not really based on any real data. like yeah, 'it happens'. but the overwhelming number of white ppl who left nyc over the last decade were archie bunker outer borough types, as you can see by looking at it by neighborhood: http://www.urbanresearchmaps.org/plurality/
and looking at the national inflow/outflow, the outflow from manhattan is primarily a. florida b. northeast burbs: http://www.forbes.com/special-report/2011/migration.html
hip new yorkers moving to kansas city would make a good quiddities article, but there's not a lot of evidence that it happens enough to 'be a thing'. and the cleveland renaissance - it's downtown doubling in population over the last 20 years - well, that's 4500 people. which is great, and I'd imagine the number would be even higher if it weren't for the various constraints to downtown cleveland living - but 4500 people is a drop in the bucket even as far as the cleveland metro population goes.
― iatee, Sunday, 24 June 2012 03:02 (eleven years ago) link
'its downtown'
― iatee, Sunday, 24 June 2012 03:03 (eleven years ago) link
b. northeast burbs
my interest in the phenomenon, obv
― Mordy, Sunday, 24 June 2012 03:04 (eleven years ago) link
that's been happening for 100 years tho
― iatee, Sunday, 24 June 2012 03:07 (eleven years ago) link
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-kCDOfeHs7aA/T3dkGmik04I/AAAAAAAADgo/cV6rUQTpzRw/s640/03-02_full.jpg
― Mordy, Sunday, 24 June 2012 03:19 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2011/sep/30/even-artichokes-have-doubts/
basically just for this precious quote:
“I’m practical,” she says. “I’m not going to work at a non-profit for my entire life; I know that’s not possible. I’m realistic about the things that I need for a lifestyle that I’ve become accustomed to.” Though she admits she’s at least partially worried of ending up at the bank “longer than [she] sees [her]self there now,” at present she sees it as a “hugely stimulating and educational” way to spend the next few years.
― s.clover, Wednesday, 27 June 2012 04:32 (eleven years ago) link
fourth sentence in that article ends with an exclamation point; stopped reading.
― "Holy crap," I mutter, as he gently taps my area (silby), Wednesday, 27 June 2012 04:43 (eleven years ago) link
I like exclamation points! College journalism I'm not quite so keen on..
― s.clover, Wednesday, 27 June 2012 05:05 (eleven years ago) link
google the author of that article
― iatee, Wednesday, 27 June 2012 14:57 (eleven years ago) link
oy
― Mordy, Wednesday, 27 June 2012 15:07 (eleven years ago) link
I think she does capture something, though, about the extent to which a certain kind of ivy student is on a kind of conveyor belt in life. Lifelong non-autonomy combined with desperate need for affirmation combined with expectation of material comfort = path of least resistance. Someone e-mails you about a "prestigious" job in your second year of school, you say yes in spite of your vague notions of doing something more "meaningful." And you don't just do it, you rationalize it.
― click here if you want to load them all (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 27 June 2012 15:26 (eleven years ago) link
i have found that while it's important to feel occupationally fulfilled in some regard (i have continued to write despite having an unrelated day job), there are so many other areas of life that are important too. is it better to be happy at work and then go home and cry about bills piling up and debt and getting into fights with your significant other about money, and struggling to pay rent, or better to maybe feel unfulfilled at work and then have all that other stuff a little bit worked out? i mean, the choice is not an exact binary. even at uninspiring jobs you can find things to be proud about and ways to deploy your specific talents + skills in a satisfying way. and obv there are those that figure out how to live doing their dream jobs (even if that means cutting back in other areas). it's not just about luxury tho. maybe you want to start a family and now you need to move into a bigger place, buy diapers, pay for childcare, etc. it's not just the path of least resistance. sometimes you shuffle your priorities.
(nb i use the second person a lot here but i think it's obv that i'm talking a large bit about my own experiences...)
― Mordy, Wednesday, 27 June 2012 15:32 (eleven years ago) link
I think that's all reasonable. I'm someone who very much based my job decision on a balance of salary, time to see family and opportunity for advancement rather than what I would find most interesting or meaningful (although it's not completely bereft of interest). But I don't think that's how Yale grads are deciding their jobs. I think it's more "here's an easy way I can get a job without having to really go out and compete, and I will continue to be told I'm special and get paid handsomely"
― click here if you want to load them all (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 27 June 2012 16:54 (eleven years ago) link
christ. didn't know about the author. :-(
― s.clover, Wednesday, 27 June 2012 17:51 (eleven years ago) link
http://gawker.com/5924881/22+year+old-is-very-upset-that-she-didnt-get-to-be-poor-for-a-while
― iatee, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 01:05 (eleven years ago) link
you can pretty easily get yourself into credit card debt and eat ramen every day even if you have money iirc
― mississippi joan hart (crüt), Wednesday, 11 July 2012 02:15 (eleven years ago) link
other than that I don't really have anything to say about this 22-year-old who has crazy-sounding ideas about what she thinks her life should be
― mississippi joan hart (crüt), Wednesday, 11 July 2012 02:21 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.adweek.com/adfreak/kfc-urges-loser-college-grads-stop-living-their-parents-141949
― iatee, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 02:47 (eleven years ago) link