The course material isn’t really what your undergrad tuition pays for.

You’re paying to be surrounded by smart kids that will ensmarten you too and for access to the school’s career networks.

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erxam an hour ago | parent | next [-]

>You’re paying to be surrounded by smart kids that will ensmarten you too and for access to the school’s career networks.

If you're paying and it isn't for a new campus building with your family's name on it, then you're not going to have access to those things at all.

Suuuuure, you're going to be able to access some sort of 'career' network. You'll be able to find amazing and high-paying jobs such as... um... uh...

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senexox 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This is not at all what most students go to undergrad for.

For some reason in discussions like this, things are always framed as if everyone is going to Yale.

Everyone I know including myself, went to college because that is just what you were supposed to do. That was my mom's dream for me to get a degree and I didn't want to disappoint my mom.

I am sure there were really smart kids in my high school that were figuring out post graduate network strategy but that was hardly the majority.

I even had a friend that dropped out of high school that ended up going to community college. He wasn't exactly figuring out the eigenvector centrality of the nodes of his general studies classmates.

	▲	refs 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Correct. Social pressure is what pushes most people there. As a result of this social pressure, people do tend to go off the rails when there (having fun) very few give a fck about studying - who cares, there's no reward for getting anything beyond 60-70%.

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llbbdd 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Abbreviated:

- Surrounded by other kids who have access to the same internet you do

- Access to the school's career networks (LinkedIn)

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Esophagus4 3 hours ago | parent [-]

I will challenge anyone who thinks they can get an equivalent quality of undergrad education and access to career services remotely.

	▲	llbbdd 44 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Lol, nice to meet you. Left freshman year, got paid, got out. Questions welcome. College for tech jobs became useless after like 2008. Books are cheap. I'd challenge anyone in response to prove they got a degree in the 21st century.

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refs 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

This is mythology. I went to a very high ranked uni and this is not what any of my classmates were interested in either - it was all about getting drunk and pulling all nighters a few weeks before exams.

Career networks? Hahaha. Very few benefitted from that.

Once again, I went to a top 3 ranked uni on many league tables worldwide.