Only Americans Burn in Hell

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The last time anyone thanked me for my honesty was in an email sent by the Office of Development and Alumni Relations at New York University, an institution of higher learning centered in New York City’s Greenwich Village.

NYU has three distinguishing characteristics.

The first is that it’s my alma mater.

I graduated in 2002 AD, after giving the university an absurd amount of money for an undergraduate degree.

This is why the school begs me for money.

It’s like a junkie who can’t stop.

NYU’s second distinction is its inhuman cost.

In 2017 AD, the tuition was $46,170 for a year. Throw in campus housing and administrative fees, and the total was $63,472.

To put this in context: as of 2016 AD, the American median income was $57,617 per person.

You can’t charge $63,472 and expect much more than a mixture of the rich and the gullible.

The gullible emerge from NYU in a state of financial ruin, indebted for a substandard education that they could’ve received for about 1/8th of the price at a state-run university.

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