hunt for it wrote:
Both went to P5 schools and neither are paying anything. Most is due to academic scholarships but both received small athletic scholarships as well.
Cool, you were paying in state or out of state tuition?
hunt for it wrote:
Both went to P5 schools and neither are paying anything. Most is due to academic scholarships but both received small athletic scholarships as well.
Cool, you were paying in state or out of state tuition?
One of each. National merit was the key. We don't regret the decision. $600k saved that they can use to purchase new residences instead of a Harvard degree and no house.
I think Gibby is posting under several user names here in a desperate attempt to keep Blanks at Harvard.
Ivy league grads don't make more money ~
https://www.usnews.com/education/blogs/the-college-solution/2011/03/01/the-ivy-league-earnings-myth
Lots of assumptions here. Maybe Harvard is where he wanted to go and felt was the best place for him academically, athletically and personally. Maybe his goal for running was to get into the best school possible. Maybe he wants to live the van life and has no interest in a condo. Whatever the situation, I think he’s doing just fine.
How many Supreme Court justices went to non-Ivies?
The answer was zero. Now, it's one.
The Ivies also totally dominate Congress.
This is the first president since Reagan, I think, without an Ivy League degree.
(Trump, Penn; Obama, Columbia and Harvard Law; Bush II, Yale; Clinton, Yale Law; Bush I, Yale; Reagan, Occidental; Carter, Navy)
hunt for it wrote:
One of each. National merit was the key. We don't regret the decision. $600k saved that they can use to purchase new residences instead of a Harvard degree and no house.
So your kids went to school at no cost, you say you saved 600k which would mean you paid nada for your kids.
runnerexpert wrote:
hunt for it wrote:
One of each. National merit was the key. We don't regret the decision. $600k saved that they can use to purchase new residences instead of a Harvard degree and no house.
So your kids went to school at no cost, you say you saved 600k which would mean you paid nada for your kids.
He said he gave their kids each 300k towards a house. He said it right in the post you quoted.
I used to follow this guy on Strava and he does all of his runs in the 5 minute range.
money back wrote:
runnerexpert wrote:
So your kids went to school at no cost, you say you saved 600k which would mean you paid nada for your kids.
He said he gave their kids each 300k towards a house. He said it right in the post you quoted.
His math doesnt add up...saved 600k by not going to an ivy league...there are costs involved going to a non ivy
Not for us there weren't. I have not done a precise reconciliation to verify because they are off campus now so the schools send us the money for room and board but I would say that it covers all of it. Sounds like some of you would have made a different decision. I think my sons will have many jealous coworkers when they are 25 years old earning $100k and have no house payment. But you can have your Harvard diploma while my sons will be socking tens of thousands into their 401k. I just don't see how they would have ever made up that difference. We will never know.
That's nice, your kids will be making 100k when they are 25.
Do you know how many Harvard grads will make 5 x that at that age? Sad, but true. Connections can't be beat.
Read the article posted above about the earnings myth. Equivalent students have identical earnings to Harvard grads. Those are the facts that some Ivy League researchers discovered. If you were a grad, you would read the study and not shoot from the hip.
If you are attached to the Harvard degree, then why shouldn't he go pro and have the Harvard degree paid for by Nike?
Free Harvard education and earning a salary while in school.
Not fast enough yet for that type of contract.
hunt for it wrote:
Not fast enough yet for that type of contract.
You are full of it with all your arguments. You use different usernames in the same thread and you talk as if you know how financial aid works at the Ivy schools.
I am calling you out. Why, because I coached in the Ivy's and know better.
Doubtful. Everyone knows how their aid works. That is the beauty of it. They post it front and center. There are no academic or athletic scholarships. And all of the Ivies have a nice little calculator that requires only 1 minute of input. I guess you didn't realize that though. Plug in $300k of income and $1M of assets and you will see $78k per year for the subject runner. Plug in $200k income with $2M assets and you also see a cost of $78k for me.
hunt for it wrote:
Read the article posted above about the earnings myth. Equivalent students have identical earnings to Harvard grads. Those are the facts that some Ivy League researchers discovered. If you were a grad, you would read the study and not shoot from the hip.
So why should anyone go to Harvard? It’s a good thing you are here to point out his poor decisions since you clearly know more than anyone else about what people should do with their lives. Yes, there are advantages to going to Harvard or an Ivy League school. Examples are top wall street investment banks, top-tier consulting firms, Supreme Court law clerks, cabinet positions, tenure track positions at elite universities, etc.
Where has every president since Reagan attended college? (Harvard, Yale, and Penn). What about most cabinet members and 8 of 9 current Supreme Court justices? Which colleges have the most Nobel Prize winners? Maybe someone wants to marry into a wealthy family or make friends with people that may one day provide investment capital for a start-up or get them a meeting with a company CEO. I understand you may not give a crap about any of these things. But there is a reason that graduates from a just few universities dominate corporate boardrooms and other positions of power.
It makes sense for most of its students. Many receive large discounts and many others come from very wealthy families. You are correct about the facts that you provided. But the fact that some graduates are very high earners while the average student earns the same as a grad from a different school who had the credentials to be admitted to Harvard, that means that many Harvard grads actually earn less than equivalent students who graduate from other schools. Sorry to have to provide the math.
on the inside wrote:
hunt for it wrote:
Read the article posted above about the earnings myth. Equivalent students have identical earnings to Harvard grads. Those are the facts that some Ivy League researchers discovered. If you were a grad, you would read the study and not shoot from the hip.
So why should anyone go to Harvard? It’s a good thing you are here to point out his poor decisions since you clearly know more than anyone else about what people should do with their lives. Yes, there are advantages to going to Harvard or an Ivy League school. Examples are top wall street investment banks, top-tier consulting firms, Supreme Court law clerks, cabinet positions, tenure track positions at elite universities, etc.
Where has every president since Reagan attended college? (Harvard, Yale, and Penn). What about most cabinet members and 8 of 9 current Supreme Court justices? Which colleges have the most Nobel Prize winners? Maybe someone wants to marry into a wealthy family or make friends with people that may one day provide investment capital for a start-up or get them a meeting with a company CEO. I understand you may not give a crap about any of these things. But there is a reason that graduates from a just few universities dominate corporate boardrooms and other positions of power.
Except a PRINCETON economist said it literally doesn't matter. He's an IVY LEAGUE professor, so clearly he's correct by your own logic.
Most Ivy League grads get good jobs after they graduate because their daddy owns the company. Or because their daddy is a US senator.
Most other Ivy League students can't get a full athletic scholarship to every other school in the nation.
money back wrote:
He should go pro or transfer to a school that will give him a scholarship. Harvard is a great school but it is sad to see a 13:27 guy paying close to 80k per year for college.
Yup. He can sacrifice a guaranteed above average salary after college for free shoes from a local running store by focusing on running.