RPI worth the debt?

benellis
Mon, 26 Jul 2010 00:23:31 +0000

It’s really impossible to tell if a school is going to be worth what you pay for it. If you choose to go to Harvard over your state school, you’re not necessarily going to be any better off after you graduate just because you went to Harvard. It depends on you and what you do with you education. It’s typically true that there are better opportunities at private schools and the top public schools (ex. better faculty, more research opportunities, better co-ops and internships, and other resources), but a driven student at a state school (assuming it’s not UC or something like that) can get the things they need to succeed on their own… it just might take more work.

Bottom Line: It’s probably not worth going into massive amounts of debt for any school, whether it be RPI or anywhere else. A small amount of debt is survivable, but you don’t want to dig yourself into a hole that you’re not going to be able to climb back out of… it will be counterintuitive.