Engineering programs that pay off the most for for lower income students

cptofthehouse
Thu, 29 Aug 2019 23:43:16 +0000

@cshell2 , your son has a powerful force on his side in that he has an involved, informed, invested parent. I also get the sense that he is accustomed to working in a challenging academic environment. Other than a very tiny group of “black swans”, kids who don’t have those advantages and are not stratospherically brilliant, are not going to be even in the market for those schools.

I’ve always been a bit curt about those lists of schools that cherry picked off ever so many lists out there. As this list here is. I think the Colleges That Change Lived was a refreshing departure from that sameness but it still did not address the trifling subject of COST . Not only are many of these less competitive schools inaccessible to very low income students, they are not in the running for the many kids out there whose parents have higher EFCs than they are willing or able to pay due to many circumstances. Even if the reason is total BS, the kid is left holding that bag