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re: Would you fund your kid's IVY league education if you could?
Posted on 11/30/22 at 8:19 pm to mattytiger123
Posted on 11/30/22 at 8:19 pm to mattytiger123
We're on track to save about $250,000 for my two kids education.
My advice to them would go to local school U for undergrad, decent grad school...use balance for down payment on first house.
We'll see if they listen to dear old dad.
My advice to them would go to local school U for undergrad, decent grad school...use balance for down payment on first house.
We'll see if they listen to dear old dad.
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Posted on 11/30/22 at 8:20 pm to mattytiger123
Did you raise your kids right? Then their morals should be set headed into college and they should be comfortable calling on you when they have issues in life. That they won’t be judged too harshly when they come for help.
If you do that then you shouldn’t have to worry about it.
If you do that then you shouldn’t have to worry about it.
Posted on 11/30/22 at 8:22 pm to mattytiger123
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Would you fund your kid's IVY league education if you could
Yes.
The ivy network, especially at a place like Harvard, is insane.
If I'm the kid I'm going and taking out loans if I have to. If you have elite level career aspirations, going to an elite institution is invaluable. Probably also 100x easier to get into the elite Law/med/B schools too with that on your resume.
Posted on 11/30/22 at 8:24 pm to mattytiger123
Is he a POC? Otherwise he’s not getting into Harvard with a 34 ACT.
Posted on 11/30/22 at 8:26 pm to mattytiger123
If he is capable and dedicated to doing the work required to graduate and learn something in the process...yes, I would fund it. I would also be clear that I wasn't going to tolerate any "off" semesters. That kind of money is serious business and he needs to respect it.
Posted on 11/30/22 at 8:31 pm to mattytiger123
Not for a fricking philosophy degree.
This post was edited on 11/30/22 at 8:32 pm
Posted on 11/30/22 at 8:33 pm to mattytiger123
I would pay to make sure my kid does not attend an ivy league school
Posted on 11/30/22 at 8:43 pm to mattytiger123
Why would any parent pay to have their child indoctrinated to be a miserable leftist with a hate filled heart?
Posted on 11/30/22 at 9:02 pm to mattytiger123
Why would I, or any sane parent for that matter, pay to send my children to a radical Marxist reeducation camp?
Posted on 11/30/22 at 9:48 pm to mattytiger123
Ivy admissions are a crapshoot no matter his grades and scores, though applying early decision helps a lot. But if his parents have the means but will not pay for it, there is no reason to apply. An undergrad student can only take out loans of $5000-$7500 a year in his own name. Parents would have to take out loans or pay the rest. Now should they pay? I don't think a Yale education is a lot better than Notre Dame, but they are likely paying the full $300,000 at either. Parents can dictate where they will spend that money but they better do a good job explaining that to the kid or risk a rupture in their relationship.
Posted on 11/30/22 at 9:50 pm to mattytiger123
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Thoughts?
Let the kid go the best school that makes him happy and stop worrying about all the indoctrination crap.
Posted on 11/30/22 at 10:11 pm to mattytiger123
He doesn't need an Ivy League education for philosophy and then law.
Posted on 11/30/22 at 10:14 pm to mattytiger123
Working in NYC for about 8 years I came across a large number of people that went Ivy League for history, English, some kind of literature or philosophy and still ended up in consulting or IB. I don’t think everyone here realizes the power of just having an ivy school on your resume.
Posted on 11/30/22 at 10:21 pm to mattytiger123
My wife comes from a very privileged family.
Schools are meant for social, economic, & political connections, unless you are middle class, and then they are meant for education.
Schools are meant for social, economic, & political connections, unless you are middle class, and then they are meant for education.
This post was edited on 11/30/22 at 10:24 pm
Posted on 11/30/22 at 10:23 pm to mattytiger123
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His parents are strong conservative Christians and said, in a very matter-of-fact tone, that they will refuse to help fund his education at radical left-wing IVYs and state schools, even going as far to exclude left-leaning Jesuit schools like Fordham, LU-Chicago, etc for their Marxism, and will only pay for "sane institutions." This caused a lot of tension at thanksgiving and is clearly making their boy distraught. My nephew seems pretty set on going to an IVY (if he gets in) no matter the debt he will incur, whereas his mom and dad are pretty loaded and willing to fund his education elsewhere in full.
his parents are brainwashed retards
Posted on 11/30/22 at 10:25 pm to mattytiger123
I would never allow any child of mine to take a bullshite, useless, undergrad major like philosophy unless they were getting a full free ride at that university (including room & board). I would also actively discourage them from pursuing law school (I am a lawyer).
This post was edited on 11/30/22 at 10:26 pm
Posted on 11/30/22 at 10:33 pm to mattytiger123
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His mom is a nurse practitioner and his father is an MD (nephrology).
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His parents are strong conservative Christians
I hope they don't allow their views to interfere with their work.
Posted on 11/30/22 at 10:37 pm to mattytiger123
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Would you fund your kid's IVY league education if you could?
I could, and I won't.
Posted on 11/30/22 at 10:40 pm to mattytiger123
They are idiots
Posted on 11/30/22 at 10:45 pm to mattytiger123
Probably the craziest thing the kid would see is the offspring of all these "conservative" polticians and public figures going to Ivy schools, hanging out with the the liberal scions, seeing all their parents mix at the Hamptons or regattas.
The downtalk of what wrong on Ivy schools sure doesn't seem to apply to the conservative parents who are all trying their best to get their kids in.
The downtalk of what wrong on Ivy schools sure doesn't seem to apply to the conservative parents who are all trying their best to get their kids in.
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