Financial Respect 101

newmassdad
Fri, 06 Jul 2007 13:44:41 +0000

The sad fact is that colleges want to have it all ways:


they want you to believe that they are “above the fray” of crass commerce as their admissions folks attend courses about revenue maximization, hence “merit” awards.
they want you to believe that so much of johnny’s education is paid for by generous and anonymous donors, so please, parents, pony up your share of donations, too. Never mind that these $$ never seem to make it to instruction accounts (the accounts that matter for our kids.)
they say one thing at admissions meetings and do another behind closed doors.


Colleges are business, but not very well managed ones. We that pay the bills are on the receiving end of these bad practices.

(OK, for the flamers, the above comments do NOT apply to the institution where the kids of any fellow posters are going…etc. etc.)