Originally Posted by Dude
With the way college tuition has increased by double-digits annually over the course of an entire generation, with wages stagnant over the same period, are SES and EdAtt still separable at this point?

I've been seriously questioning the price tag of private colleges costing $60,000 a year. I mean, seriously? Sixty thousand dollars for eight months of classes? This is not a realistic and reasonable price tag.

For decades, they've been telling us that "tuition doesn't even begin to cover the cost of an education at College X!!" Yet there is a long and unhappy history of annual tuition increases that surpass the increase in the cost of living. I suspect (but do not know) that increased tuition is helping to pay for fancy new buildings that may or may not be used by undergrads.

And I am speaking of a graduate of one of those pricey elite New England colleges! So, no sour grapes here.