Most Americans are retards: as colleges increase tuition, they become more desirable

[Herman Munster]

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/12/education/12tuition.html?_r=1&hp&ex=1165899600&en=d7a00f988fce1a54&ei=5094&partner=homepage&oref=slogin

John Strassburger, the president of Ursinus College, a small liberal arts institution here in the eastern Pennsylvania countryside, vividly remembers the day that the chairman of the board of trustees told him the college was losing applicants because of its tuition.

It was too low.

So early in 2000 the board voted to raise tuition and fees 17.6 percent, to $23,460 (and to include a laptop for every incoming student to help soften the blow). Then it waited to see what would happen.

Ursinus received nearly 200 more applications than the year before. Within four years the size of the freshman class had risen 35 percent, to 454 students. Applicants had apparently concluded that if the college cost more, it must be better.

“It’s bizarre and it’s embarrassing, but it’s probably true,” Dr. Strassburger said.

[Eric J in MN]

1. There is a George Carlin routine where he makes fun of the saying...

..."you get what you pay for."

No, you get what they charge you, says Carlin.


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By the way, there is a similar phenonomona with perfumes, where higher prices INCREASE sales.

[villager]

2. hmmm... UC Berkeley only cost me $700 a year

but that was a handful or three of years ago...

[Herman Munster]

3. I don't see why anyone would go to a private college

it's like throwing money down a rathole. An excellent quality education can be found at hundreds of public universities at fractions of the cost of a private school.

[Pugee]

4. Not in Missouri

The University of Missouri failed in comparison of tuition with other states. An F. I went to a private college for my bachelors. The price was almost the same, plus I had small classes and teachers hired to teach and not to do research and let grad students run their classes.

[TahitiNut]

5. Connections. Higher price = more exclusive (literally)

I'd be willing to bet that the racial demographics are (cough) coincidentally skewed as well.

:shrug: If "they" can afford it then they're "our kind" of people. :puke:

[StClone]

6. Most expensive Undergrad with R & B?

Why its where I mistakenly allowed my kid to apply and get accepted. Great news until I saw the sticker. http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/79163/what_are_americas_most_expensive_colleges.html

Any advice about using Ebay to sell off my other kid? They sure have a nice price on this site http://www.humanforsale.com/top.asp?gender=female


...hmmm....

[wakemeupwhenitsover]

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