“Nice Ivy League Degree. Now If You Want a Job, Go to Code School”
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#2"bachelor’s degree in psychology and studio art".
The fact that you might need vocational training when trying to get a job that's outside your area of study surprises people ?
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#3"The 22-year-old graduated last year with a bachelor’s degree in psychology and studio art that cost more than a quarter-million dollars." ....how is this even possible?
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#4"The 22-year-old graduated last year with a bachelor’s degree in psychology and studio art that cost more than a quarter-million dollars." ....how is this even possible?
60k per year * 4 years = 240k, with 0 scholarship
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#5"The 22-year-old graduated last year with a bachelor’s degree in psychology and studio art that cost more than a quarter-million dollars." ....how is this even possible?
60k per year * 4 years = 240k, with 0 scholarship
I was one of the students quoted in the article (you can probably guess who by my name). I went to a school that ostensibly costs that much but very few people there didn't have some kind of financial aid. Based on the wording of the article I don't think the person he mentioned paid full price, either.
I don't regret going to a liberal arts school one bit, and it wasn't as if there were no jobs available to me when I graduated. To be honest, I'm surprised at how one-dimensional this article reads, because he makes it seem like there is no gray area in what makes a good education.
One of the main reasons that these bootcamps are successful is that the majority of the students have some kind of college education (he mentions 70% in the article but that includes the less impressive camps who will literally take anybody). Boot camp grads are competitive because they have skills (communication-wise) that come with diverse degrees. The fact that the author is dismissing those skills makes me think he really missed the point.
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#6This part shocked me:
Homework swallows her nights and weekends—a big change from Dartmouth,
where after a few hours of class “you could just do whatever,” Feng says.
What kind of life is Dartmouth preparing them for? Makes me glad I "rebelled" by choosing MIT.
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#7Why wouldn't they need to go to a coding bootcamp if they don't have any relevant experience or haven't studied a related subject? They've all chosen to retrain to find jobs in new fields.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
60k per year * 4 years = 240k, with 0 scholarship
I was one of the students quoted in the article (you can probably guess who by my name). I went to a school that ostensibly costs that much but very few people there didn't have some kind of financial aid. Based on the wording of the article I don't think the person he mentioned paid full price, either. I don't regret going to a liberal arts school one bit, and it wasn't as if there were no jobs available to me when…
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