The College-Cost Calamity • Hacker News Board

Re: The College-Cost Calamity

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Post by brianto2010 » Sat, Aug 04, 2012, 12:20 AM UTC

tsotha wrote: post #76

brianto2010 wrote: post #69

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Co-op program. And networking. A lot of companies see RIT as a huge talent pool, and dedicate quite a bit of recruiting resources to look for potential interns and full-timers. Plus, you'll find peers that you can use to develop your professional network.

>A lot of companies see RIT as a huge talent pool, and dedicate quite a bit of recruiting resources to look for potential interns and full-timers. Plus, you'll find peers that you can use to develop your professional network. That's too much money to spend on a technical degree. You could make the argument Harvard or Yale is worth that kind of money because your contacts are with people who are going to be senators a…

> way too much money for what you're going to get.

YMMV.

Re: The College-Cost Calamity

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Post by stevencorona » Sat, Aug 04, 2012, 4:11 PM UTC

tsotha wrote: post #80

stevencorona wrote: post #79

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Disagree. You can be wildly successful by just hustling. I am.

Your top end is limited unless you start your own company.

Not true. Join a startup. Or better yet, learn how to sell yourself. You'll never need a degree if you can sell your passion.

Re: The College-Cost Calamity

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Post by Quizzy » Sat, Aug 04, 2012, 6:37 PM UTC

The most relevant question is "whether the college experience (including life experiences and consequent employment value) is worth the attached price tag?" It's one thing when you are paying $5,000 per semester, but at $40,000 per year for 4 years? Unless those 4 years leads to an positive cash flow of $10,000 per year thereafter to repay this debt, I just don't see the rationality of paying so much for non-incoming producing B.S./B.A. degrees (biology, psychology, sociology, languages, etc.).