06-08-2017, 01:26 PM
The NY Times has an interesting table about college affordability at https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017...table.html
Stanford shows up as having the lowest "net price" for a student from a middle-income family. Harvard is second-lowest.
This makes an important point that too often gets lost in the noise about the cost of college. At this point, the "expensive" schools are expensive only if you come from a pretty well-off family. For middle-income (or low-income) kids, those schools are often a lot cheaper than the state schools (according to this table, the net price a middle-income student would pay to attend Kal is more than twice what it would cost to attend Stanford).
Stanford shows up as having the lowest "net price" for a student from a middle-income family. Harvard is second-lowest.
This makes an important point that too often gets lost in the noise about the cost of college. At this point, the "expensive" schools are expensive only if you come from a pretty well-off family. For middle-income (or low-income) kids, those schools are often a lot cheaper than the state schools (according to this table, the net price a middle-income student would pay to attend Kal is more than twice what it would cost to attend Stanford).