| simmer down pinder....
B and D both rock. it comes down to personal taste. billman clearly prefers B and we should leave it at that.
the ~$500,000 figure comes from resources expended on educating a single student that are not recouped by tuition. for example, when Bill Clinton speaks on campus, it costs the university over $100,000 for a 2 hour event. when you use an fMRI to complete a lab assignment for a neuroscience class you are using machinery that costs millions. when you attend class in sayles hall, it costs the university an ungodly amount of money to educate you under chandeliers, stained glass, and flying buttresses (as opposed to flourescent lights and ceiling panels).
the basic point is tuition is just a fraction of what the university actually spends on educating you. this is the main advantage of going to a fancy ivy league university. |