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FTFA: the median starting salary of people with college degrees is $46,900

Of those who graduated... of those who found a job at all.

>$59,950 for tuition, room, board and fees combined

If a summer job could pay for that, then why would I need a college degree to make $47K annually? Harry Lewis is le trollin.

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I thought the same thing. Besides, many elite institutions actively discourage working while at school, and I speak from personal experience here. So there's no way to actually make that type of money away from school. Besides, it puts the responsibility of those outrageous fees on the student again - why don't you just work to get the money? And that's not the point. Competing options are.

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