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re: Do you consider a 1000% price change increase over a 20 year period reasonable?
Posted on 4/11/25 at 3:58 pm to AlextheBodacious
Posted on 4/11/25 at 3:58 pm to AlextheBodacious
TOPS, and other state programs like it, have removed any incentive for the idiots that run colleges to at least attempt to control costs.
And now, if you have a pulse, you can get into LSU.
And now, if you have a pulse, you can get into LSU.
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Posted on 4/11/25 at 4:25 pm to NorthEndZone
So everything that the Gov't has their tentacles in have increased wildly versus other products.
Great
Posted on 4/11/25 at 4:29 pm to sidewalkside
When I was at Auburn 30 years ago, it was about $6k per year. I’d take a check for $1500 to the bursar’s office.
My oldest had his visit there, and it’s an affordable $35k for the same thing.
Oh yeah, I paid $350/month in rent, and it’s about 4x that now to share a place.
My oldest had his visit there, and it’s an affordable $35k for the same thing.
Oh yeah, I paid $350/month in rent, and it’s about 4x that now to share a place.
Posted on 4/11/25 at 4:40 pm to rintintin
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rintintin
Not a bad visual, but I have to question the new car part of that.
Posted on 4/11/25 at 5:38 pm to sidewalkside
A lot of degrees should just be trade school. I worked in medical labs 40 years. Took 15 hours of chemistry. Very difficult courses. The first year of med teching in a hospital, I had too make up a 0.5 molar solution of HCl. I thought, yeah I'm using my chemistry. Making molar solutions is probably the first thing you use in the first chemistry class you take.
The remaining years I never used a single concept I learned in chemistry. And I worked in the chem department the last 4 years.
Point being, all I used could have been learned in one year.
BUT, the opposing thought is you really don't want a bunch of people working in a medical lab that are not pretty smart. I've worked in an overall "dumb" lab(short time) and the patient results did suffer a great deal.
The remaining years I never used a single concept I learned in chemistry. And I worked in the chem department the last 4 years.
Point being, all I used could have been learned in one year.
BUT, the opposing thought is you really don't want a bunch of people working in a medical lab that are not pretty smart. I've worked in an overall "dumb" lab(short time) and the patient results did suffer a great deal.
This post was edited on 4/11/25 at 5:40 pm
Posted on 4/11/25 at 5:40 pm to jeffsdad
quote:
BUT, the opposing thought is you really don't want a bunch of people working in a medical lab that are not pretty smart. I've worked in an overall "dumb" lab(short time) and the patient results did suffer a great deal.
You refuted your own argument in the same post. Well done
Posted on 4/11/25 at 5:41 pm to BilbeauTBaggins
quote:sure about that?
Programs like TOPS were designed for lower income families,
Posted on 4/11/25 at 5:44 pm to NorthEndZone
I make LOTS of money for a hospital and for some reason my pay doesn't match that trajectory.
Posted on 4/11/25 at 5:52 pm to Mingo Was His NameO
Yep, I know, its working towards supervisors being in charge of depts having their degrees and workers not having degrees. Guess its a compromise. Its when the supervisors fail or don't care you find serious problems.
Posted on 4/11/25 at 5:53 pm to sidewalkside
Gotta pay for that dei somehow
Posted on 4/11/25 at 5:53 pm to jeffsdad
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Yep, I know, its working towards supervisors being in charge of depts having their degrees and workers not having degrees.
How do you be a supervisor without being a worker first?
Posted on 4/11/25 at 5:56 pm to Mingo Was His NameO
Nowadays it’s a degree that makes a difference.
Posted on 4/11/25 at 6:17 pm to KamaCausey_LSU
The 1984 tuition was $295/semester. An air conditioned dorm was $625/semester. A 15-meal plan was $450/semester. Parking was $15/semester. Registration fee was $10.
So for about $1,400 you were in for a semester.
So for about $1,400 you were in for a semester.
Posted on 4/11/25 at 7:35 pm to N2cars
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And now, if you have a pulse, you can get into LSU.
Did you need a pulse to get in before tops?
Posted on 4/11/25 at 8:14 pm to AlextheBodacious
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Did you need a pulse to get in before tops?
Before 1987 all you needed to get in was a high school diploma (or GED) and to take the ACT or SAT. You didn't need any particular ACT or SAT score - you just needed to take it.
The course book had pages and pages of remedial English and Math courses. It looked like they had hundreds of sections at every available time slot.
After 1987, they put in a core curriculum requirement and an ACT score minimum.
This post was edited on 4/11/25 at 8:15 pm
Posted on 4/11/25 at 8:28 pm to sidewalkside
I remember it being $1280 a semester base tuition in 1998.
Posted on 4/11/25 at 9:41 pm to Mingo Was His NameO
quote:How so? It’s strictly based on academic performance and nothing else.
TOPS is objectively a welfare program
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