This. People just pull random sticker prices from Ivies/Stanford/MIT type of schools, without realizing that almost no one attending those schools pays that much. They have amazing need-based financial aid programs. “I got accepted into Stanford/MIT/Ivies, but cannot afford to attend” isn’t really a thing.
Unless your family is extremely wealthy, you can only realistically spend that much by either going to a small expensive private school (aka one that doesn’t have Ivies-tier financial aid) or to a hyped public school out of state (e.g., UCs as a non-CA resident). Which is a mostly silly idea, but even then, you wont really be hitting $80k/year.
I remember that back in 2013, UCLA was roughly $32k/yr for an out-of-state student. Of course I ended up not going to UCLA and went to GT instead as an in-state student. In-state sticker price of tuition was roughly $10k/yr, but every single in-state student also had access to HOPE/Zell Miller scholarship based on GPA (3.0+ covers 90% of the tuition, 3.3+ covers 100% of the tuition). And that’s on top of federal financial aid. Even without the scholarships, $10k/year is not terrible, and is a far cry from $80k/yr. Out of state costs were roughly $22k/yr, and international costs were around $30k/yr.
I am really curious to see those $80k/yr schools that don’t offer Ivies-tier need-based financial aid. I would bet that the number of those schools in the US can be counted using just two hands at most. I, personally, am yet to find a single school like that. So if someone could list at least a few that are of any noteworthiness, it would be greatly appreciated.
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This. People just pull random sticker prices from Ivies/Stanford/MIT type of schools, without realizing that almost no one attending those schools pays that much. They have amazing need-based financial aid programs. “I got accepted into Stanford/MIT/Ivies, but cannot afford to attend” isn’t really a thing.
Unless your family is extremely wealthy, you can only realistically spend that much by either going to a small expensive private school (aka one that doesn’t have Ivies-tier financial aid) or to a hyped public school out of state (e.g., UCs as a non-CA resident). Which is a mostly silly idea, but even then, you wont really be hitting $80k/year.
I remember that back in 2013, UCLA was roughly $32k/yr for an out-of-state student. Of course I ended up not going to UCLA and went to GT instead as an in-state student. In-state sticker price of tuition was roughly $10k/yr, but every single in-state student also had access to HOPE/Zell Miller scholarship based on GPA (3.0+ covers 90% of the tuition, 3.3+ covers 100% of the tuition). And that’s on top of federal financial aid. Even without the scholarships, $10k/year is not terrible, and is a far cry from $80k/yr. Out of state costs were roughly $22k/yr, and international costs were around $30k/yr.
I am really curious to see those $80k/yr schools that don’t offer Ivies-tier need-based financial aid. I would bet that the number of those schools in the US can be counted using just two hands at most. I, personally, am yet to find a single school like that. So if someone could list at least a few that are of any noteworthiness, it would be greatly appreciated.