[Magdalen] Tuition

[Mahoney, W. Michael]

My tuition at the University of Chicago in the mid-fifties was $300 a
quarter.  The University decided first whether to admit you and then helped
you finance it with loans and jobs.  I think that the Bursar knew every
college student by their first name.

Even so, I lived on peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and Kraft dinner.

Kids can't do that these days, alas.


Mike Mahoney
Stoneledge
446 Long Mountain Road
Washington, VA 22747



On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 9:08 AM cantor03--- via Magdalen <
magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:

>
> I'm feeling really old to hear my neighbors discuss the cost of sending
> their kids tocollege.  For example, the neighbor boy who attends the Notre
> Dame branch locally(Kings, Wilkes-Barre) is paying $20,000 per year..
> State colleges for residentsare a bit less, but still hefty.  If memory
> serves me, my freshman year at UW-Madison for my resident status was$89 per
> semester ('55 - '56)..  By the time I got my bachelor's degree four years
> later, thecost had increased to $225 oer semester.  Room and board for a
> year in theWisconsin dormitories was $680 in 1955 - 1956 and $850  my
> undergraduate senior year.  Then UW Medical School was $1,200 per senester,
> but it fell to $600 medical schoolsenior year semester because they paid us
> for drawing all the bloods at UW Medical Center.  I had a good summer job
> with the Wisconsin Highway Department, and paid for mostof the expense of
> tuition plus room and board.  I had no student debt.  This is all ancient
> history.  These current kids will have all this expense and NO
> FOOTBALL.  David Strang.
>