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Education Dept names the most expensive colleges - 7/1/2011 12:09:01 AM
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fiery
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These are rankings no college wants to top. The Education Department today unveils a website on which it is publishing for the first time lists identifying the nation's most expensive colleges.
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RE: Education Dept names the most expensive colleges - 7/12/2011 3:52:04 AM
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The Department of Agriculture has just released its yearly document on the value of bringing up kids, and the report for 2010 has found the dear children cost more to look after currently. It was observed that the cost of bringing up one kid to age 18 has gone up by over $40,000 after modifying for the cost of living.
With the mere fact that is hard to raise our child and our problem is their education too. As parents, we want them to finish their studies no matter how costly their education is. USDA announces cost of raising a child is going up. Expenses for college are not included in that estimate, and “average cost” is a bit misleading. The average expenditure varied widely based on a number of factors, including income level of parents, location, single parent or two-parent household and number of children in the family.
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RE: Education Dept names the most expensive colleges - 7/14/2011 12:23:40 AM
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fiery
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I think if any of us took the time to calculate how much raising our child was costing us as we went along, we'd never have another one. Hey, I think I just found an answer to the overpopulation problem! 
I'm not convinced college is the best place for every bright child to be. When I read about the likes of Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates dropping out because it was too restrictive for their inquiring minds, it makes me wonder.
We need a college for entrepreneurs. In fact, there was a story a few months ago where the Thiel Foundation ran a contest which gives 24 bright young things under 20 years old $100K each to drop out of college or school and start their own business.
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The lucky winners were all under 20 when they applied. There are actually 24 fellows, rather than 20, and each will receive $100,000 over two years, along with mentorship from a network of entrepreneurs and innovators selected by the initiative's sponsor, Peter Thiel (pictured above). The only condition set by Mr Thiel, who made his billions first by co-founding PayPal then investing early in Facebook, is that they drop out of college (or high school) to focus full-time on building a business. A few of the new fellows appear to have dropped out—or, as the press release quaintly puts it, "stopped out"—before they were chosen, to launch a start-up or even to climb mountains.
http://www.economist.com/blogs/schumpeter/2011/05/encouraging_young_entrepreneurs_leave_school
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RE: Education Dept names the most expensive colleges - 9/20/2011 3:27:41 AM
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ORIGINAL: fiery
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These are rankings no college wants to top. The Education Department today unveils a website on which it is publishing for the first time lists identifying the nation's most expensive colleges.
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Great Article! Its really helpful to encourage schools to continue in their efforts to make the costs of college more transparent. Thanks for sharing the valuable information.
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