<p>mini- cute! But, please nothing off color. LOL .02 David</p>
<p>They can’t make money because they are prohibited from going into businesses where they could make LOTS of money - such as beer and wine delivery. (They have the trucks, the distribution centers, the web, the personnel, the knowledge of the routes, and are in every small town.)</p>
<p>It is a suffering business model because Congress deliberately turned it into a suffering business model. Give them back the $5 billion a year SURPLUS for eight years, allow them to invest freely in delivery businesses, and they’d be booming!</p>
<p>Either way I STILL have not received my packet. I am at my wits’ end.</p>
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<p>Bill S. 1789, the 21 st Century Postal Service Act, co-sponsored by Sens. Joe Lieberman (I–Conn.), Susan Collins (R-Maine), Tom Carper (D-Del.) and Scott Brown (R-Mass.) would allow the USPS to deliver beer, wine and liquor. I find it interesting 3 of the 4 senators represent New England and Tom Carper (Del) is a Yankee, too. It would have been beneficial if senators from the south and liberal west/PMW also had been co-sponsors. ;)</p>
<p>I must be out of the loop but who buys beer and wine by mail? lol. Maybe some upscale stuff but really? ;)</p>
<p>Joe:“I feel like having a cold one.”</p>
<p>Moe:“Yeah should arrive in the mail any day now.”</p>
<p>ahhh, nothing like warm beer arriving in Florida. D</p>
<p>Hang in there CPU!</p>
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<p>Few thousand dollars scholarship + 6K loan @ 6% interest…</p>
<p>Its shows inconsistency, once they have accept a student, should give bit decent scholarship
44Kx4=88K $ for undergraduate study can’t be a sensible decision</p>
<p>44x4 =='s 176. </p>
<p>PM me – I may be able to provide a perspective. I’ve thought the
matter you raise thruuuuuuu! FWIW</p>
<p>Math professor…jest sayin’ ;)</p>
<p>No, arithmetic-- math is beyond me!</p>
<p>.02 David</p>
<p>sorry for mistake…44x4 = 176$
I don;t think an undergraduate student needs to spend 176,000 $ of her family on college.
Its lot of hard earn money…depending on how much you have in total :)</p>
<p>Herfather-- I PM’d you this a.m. re my thinking and how it evolved over a 9 month period. I might add that in addition to a quality and I mean quality (non diploma mill) education thru Smith or other LAC’s Daughters are purchased a Network for life. The more I learn about the Smith Network the more I believe it must be factured in to purchase price. This network is large and international in scope plus quite unique to elite LAC schools.</p>
<p>I might add that should my daughter matriculate at the University of Florida, she would bring with her 50 IB/AP credits-- entering as a 2nd semester sophomore. A biology degree requires 120 credits. GEP would be done, foreign language would be done and Intro Bio would be done. She would be out in 2 years applying to grad school. Cheap $$'s and pretty efficient in my mind. But, would she be educated like a Smith graduate? From what I’ve learned, the answer is a resounding NO. While STRIDE will help, I’m still going to be writing big checks to Smith-- I believe Daugther, Wife and me will get what we are paying for. </p>
<p>These decisions are rugged especially for middle class folks. Good luck with your struggle.</p>
<p>.02 David</p>
<p>While I agree with David about the value of a Smith education over, let’s say, a state college, for many families at some point, even a Smith education is not worth the kind of money herfather is talking about if it becomes a huge struggle to fund it. I worry too about funding the future cost of my d’s education, but I know that had she gone to our state college A. she wouldn’t have gotten nearly as good an education B. she would have been terribly miserable and might have dropped out and C. it actually would have only saved us about $5000 per year. For our family, we felt the extra $5000 or so was worth the investment, and we are willing to go into debt to support her at Smith. Hopefully herfather’s d has some more affordable alternatives.</p>
<p>Herfather–re: scholarships- as you probably know from reading cc and the Smith website, they give very few scholarships and aid is based on financial need.</p>
<p>I don’t think that a college makes a student better professional in his/her area, its only contribute a small help…I am firm believer that at the end of the day (college) student have to face the world on her own, so its the student that matter most not the college.</p>
<p>I would certainly like to get the networking of Smith alumni …but paying a price of 176K$ would not be logical unless I extra money that I wish to spend at any cost</p>
<p>Its insane for normal person to spend 200K$ of collages and then another 200K of graduate and later equal amount if student continue the further study.</p>
<p>It’s up to each family to determine if the cost of Smith is worth it to them, because the cost of Smith is different for each family. Some pay the full cost out their own pockets because they can. Some could, but choose not to do the same, because they have other economic priorities or judge the value of the institution differently. For some people, the cost is far below the official “sticker price” because they’re able to qualify for the need based aid. It’s everyone’s perogative to make their own choice. Whether it’s “insane” or not depends on the family, the personal economic situaiton, and what they consider to be of value in the educational process.</p>