<p>Before you shake up your life to pay for Barnard College, watch this new series. </p>
<p>Intro to Consumer Report, pt 1
YouTube</a> - Barnard College/Columbia University Consumer Report: Introduction</p>
<p>Intro to Consumer Report, pt 2
YouTube</a> - Barnard College/Columbia University Consumer Report: Introduction - Grade Dispute</p>
<p>This is very interesting! My sister goes to Columbia and has had a miserable time with the hidden costs EVERYWHERE. It ends up costing my parents like 57k a year and we cannot afford that. Freshman year you can only get 2 meals a day with your meal plan. Dining halls close over breaks. She has to pay for concert tickets for her Art Humanities class. It’s crazy. I don’t know about professor quality but I know that Columbia costs MUCH more than 52k a year!</p>
<p>Sorry, but these issues arise on every campus… good schools, bad schools, and everything in between. Nothing “special” about Barnard there. She is lucky to have had the opportunity to go to a first class school. How would you like to be at a CRAPPY school and feel screwed out of a grade?</p>
<p>I don’t know about the grade thing, but my cousins all at very expensive schools (MIT, Cornell, Rollins, and Drew) have never had the preposterous additional expenses that my sister has at Columbia.</p>
<p>well i don’t remember luck having anything to do with my performance in high school, or on various SATs. i think my WORK predicted everything.</p>
<p>the discussion i am provoking is one where STUDENTS should understand themselves as CONSUMERS. did you pay cash, in full for your college tuition? have you paid cash, in full, for anything? if NOT, you are someone who should question where your money went, because you don’t have it to throw around. </p>
<p>the undergraduate experience is a crock. it’s too long and far too hyped. others are passive and will accept the debt and ********. i want to talk about it.</p>
<p>thanks for your support!</p>
<p>^^^Luck has an awful lot to do with it! Do you seriously believe that there were no other students with stats comparable to yours that did NOT win the admissions lottery. You are a consumer and as such have a responsibility to do your due diligence with regard to your choices. The information is available to anybody who seeks it.</p>
<p>oh, and something else. i should be “grateful”? in this country, we are told that education is a right. i WORKED and EARNED my place. then, it was PAID FOR. the second better than the basic expectations of a this college experience occurs (and there are 4 weeks left for it to happen), i might consider being “grateful.” otherwise, i’ll be a critical consumer.</p>
<p>um…information about how the deans office is unable to handle real world problems that interrupt academics? information about how some advisors steer minority students away from pre-law pre-med programs? information about the resentment barnard students experience from across the street? i don’t know what pamphlet you’re reading.</p>
<p>Okay (not watching videos) do you mean hidden costs beyond the $60k that they estimate we need, which goes beyond even tuition/room/board/other stuff?</p>
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<p>Sorry, admissions is NOT about luck. It is NOT a lottery. It is all about intelligence, wit, skill, passion, and packaging. Cal Newport would agree with me. [Study</a> Hacks Features: College Admissions](<a href=“http://calnewport.com/blog/category/features-college-admissions/]Study”>Features: College Admissions Archives - Cal Newport)</p>
<p>In addition, the information is not readily available about all the hidden expenses. Nobody said up front, you will need $60 hear for a play ticket, $100 here for transportation to the museum where class is held, etc.</p>
<p>um… the school is in nyc… one should be able to deduce that money will have to be spent to get around and do things. there are no ‘hidden’ costs. yes, there are a lot of other costs associated with living in new york city, but come on… it’s one of the most expensive places in the world to live. if you don’t expect to have to spend money on occasion you’re just not thinking logically, if at all</p>
<p>i watched the videos which i thought were a waste of my time - that girl is just hating on whatever hasn’t worked for her.
anyone care to elaborate on the actual hidden costs in columbia?</p>
<p>Barnard’s financial aid policies are not the same as Columbia’s. This thread should be in the Barnard forum as it deals with Barnard…</p>