[Magdalen] Tuition

[Scott Knitter]

Mike, I remember saving money at Michigan State by forgoing the dorm's meal
plan and subsisting on mac & cheese, generic chicken franks, and PB&J as
well. I think I gradually added trips to fast-food joints, so not as much
was saved as I had planned on.

On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 12:50 PM Mahoney, W. Michael <wmmah at stoneledge.net>
wrote:

> 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.
> >
>


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Scott R. Knitter
Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA