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The private schools mention their greater cachet and superior pedigree. They also tend to emphasise more individual attention, smaller class sizes, and more accessible faculty. For the lower division science and math courses at a state school, the class size can easily be over a hundred, even two hundred for the intro cal and physics courses. Plus students can feel lost in the labyrinthine and bureaucratic mazes of the large state schools. But if a student has someone to advise him at home, plus he gets the lower-division courses out of the way (calculus and physics APs, for example), then I think state schools are excellent. I think more than one study has concluded that the price differential between state and private schools is not worth paying if one considers differentials in income trajectories. Nevertheless, student debt is becoming a problem for everyone as the tuition fees rise inexorably for both state and private schools. There was a time when the NYC colleges -- CCNY, Baruch, Hunter, etc. were free. As was the University of California. At other state schools across the country, tuition fees for a semester were only in the hundreds (if they weren't free). But now in this brave new age of neoliberalism ....
The private schools mention their greater cachet and superior pedigree. They also tend to emphasise more individual attention, smaller class sizes, and more accessible faculty. For the lower division science and math courses at a state school, the class size can easily be over a hundred, even two hundred for the intro cal and physics courses. Plus students can feel lost in the labyrinthine and bureaucratic mazes of the large state schools. But if a student has someone to advise him at home, plus he gets the lower-division courses out of the way (calculus and physics APs, for example), then I think state schools are excellent.
I think more than one study has concluded that the price differential between state and private schools is not worth paying if one considers differentials in income trajectories.
Nevertheless, student debt is becoming a problem for everyone as the tuition fees rise inexorably for both state and private schools. There was a time when the NYC colleges -- CCNY, Baruch, Hunter, etc. were free. As was the University of California. At other state schools across the country, tuition fees for a semester were only in the hundreds (if they weren't free). But now in this brave new age of neoliberalism ....
