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Who goes to private colleges?

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Originally posted by: heathertre
Originally posted by: RollWave
Northwestern for undergrad, Tulane for Grad.

I love the private institution feeling. Its a smaller, generally close-bonded community!
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That's why I decided to go to a private college. I like the small classrooms and actually getting a professor teaching your class and not a TA.
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I never had a TA teach anything other than a lab.

4 year public: Texas A&M University
Grad school (Public): Georgia Institute of Technology

I did go to private elementary school, middle school and high school, and parlayed those into some nice scholarships for undergrad, and that into a free graduate school..so maybe it was worth it 😛
 
Originally posted by: Jeff7


Perhaps I'm reading these incorrectly.
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Huh, odd. I was told by workers at the University that it is a private college, and that the University of Pennsylvania was the public one.
This page does say "Penn State is a multi-campus public land-grant university..." whatever "land-grant" means.[/quote]

You believed people who said that Penn STATE University is a private school?
 
Originally posted by: Jeff7
Huh, odd. I was told by workers at the University that it is a private college, and that the University of Pennsylvania was the public one.
This page does say "Penn State is a multi-campus public land-grant university..." whatever "land-grant" means.
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My mind is boggling. UPenn is most definitely a PRIVATE school. Penn State, however, while not in PASSHE, is a public university. However, they get public funding, yet control remains independent of the state.
 

Originally posted by: Jeff7
Huh, odd. I was told by workers at the University that it is a private college, and that the University of Pennsylvania was the public one.
This page does say "Penn State is a multi-campus public land-grant university..." whatever "land-grant" means.
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I'm pretty sure land grant universities are all public. They are basically universities that were set up on on public land after an act of congress while Lincoln was in office. I know Lincoln was the president at the time, which is why UW - Madison has a statue of Lincoln.
 
Private: Lycoming College.

Probably never heard of it :laugh:. Oh and Penn State is most assuredly a public school.
 
My family = poor, so I went to public school. But hey, I can't argue with only 20k in students loans upon graduation.
 
Originally posted by: ggnl
My family = poor, so I went to public school. But hey, I can't argue with only 20k in students loans upon graduation.
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My family was poor, so I went to a private school. The financial aid was much better at private school and it ended up being significantly cheaper than the UCs. Go figure.
 
Did my BS at Michigan. Finishing my MS at a private school (program's tuition is heavily subsidized by the school, it's cheaper than Michigan was in-state). Going to Wisconsin for my PhD (yay stipend!).
 
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