"My Valuable, Cheap College Degree" from Athur Brooks, TESU grad now Harvard Prof

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A very memorable (and ironic, now) statement from the article he wrote:

Not surprisingly, my college experience has occasionally been the target of ridicule. It is true that I am no Harvard Man. But I can say with full confidence that my 10K-B.A. is what made higher education possible for me, and it changed the course of my life.

Funny how time changes things.

I ALWAYS tell people to spend as little money on their bachelor's as possible, if they want a grad school degree.  Save your money for that.

One of my daughter's friends had $150k in her 529 plan.  She wants to be a nurse practitioner, so she has a lot of schooling to complete. She got accepted into many schools for her BSN, but ultimately chose to live at home and go to the local 4yr state school for it, and pay about $28k.  That leaves her a big chunk to go wherever she wants for the MSN.  Much smarter than paying $100k to go to her first choice, a private school 90 minutes away - she figured out that the MSN was the ultimate goal, and that the BSN was just a step along the way to that.