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Carnegie Mellon costs 77k/year for a bachelor's degree. If that adds up to 1.2 million for you, you should probably check your math.

The above comment is sarcasm. Somehow going over people’s heads so downvotes.

Basically, sarcasm rarely seems to work on this site, and I am ambivalent about whether this is a good thing.

Could you break down that number?

I went to a state school for 6 years and my total (living + textbooks + food + tuition) cost is nowhere near that number.

I believe they're saying that if you were to do that bootcamp for 4 years it would work out to ~1M, i.e. ridiculously more than any college.

I think it'd be 876,000 (36.5K * 6 * 4), but that's beside the point.

I figured 36.5k * 8 * 4 = 1.168m

Oh okay, I misunderstood and thought they meant precisely the opposite. Thanks!