The universities need smart people to keep the reputation up for all the average but rich people.Education received has never been different at ivy leagues.
You have to consider that, as much as we'd all love think being smart is reliably inherited, it's not reliable at all. Not saying I'm opposed to their system. So-called "legacy students" are how the school is primarily financed, allowing subsidies for merited students. Without legacy, it goes bankrupt. Without merited, the degree loses value.
They also usually prevent one from applying AP credits or IB credits to college courses, as their "honors" versions of classes are not considered equivalent to any AP class. More money for mom and dad to pay because their kid got waitlisted and later rejected from Berkeley.
>>> Why would people make an investment with insufficient ROI (Return on Investment)?
>> Insufficient information.
>> College Scorecard [1] is a database with a web interface for finding and comparing schools according to a number of objective criteria. CollegeScorecard launched in 2015. It lists "Average Annual Cost", "Graduation Rate", and "Salary After Attending" on the search results pages. When you review a detail page for an institution, there are many additional statistics; things like: "Typical Total Debt After Graduation" and "Typical Monthly Loan Payment"
Which curricular assignments have actual career ROI for cash-strapped students?
Maybe this was your experience, but I have not ever heard of this, so ‘usually’ may not be the correct descriptor.
My claim is specifically courses like AP Lit or AP Lang can't be applied for "Honors Western Civ", not that they prevent AP Physics or other stuff not in the honors college from being applied.
My niece is actually getting paid monthly in her honors program. Everything else is also covered. This, despite being eligible for GI Bill through her dad. As for Berkeley, I didn't imagine they have an honors college. In my mind, it's most associated with state schools and I've definitely seen students go from Honors program at state school to Ivy Leagues for grad school. Perhaps some of them are a scam. Just not the ones that I've seen.
You miss the point of these ivy league schools already are taxed, Congress wants to say well why not donate to the cause...and frankly some ivy league schools do in fact do that in donations to financial grant programs for low income...
Other point is that pell grants are better spent at State Schools where students can almost get 50% or more of tuition covered by pell grants due to the Congress finally increasing the amounts due to inflation in the bill they are proposing.
>some ivy league schools do in fact do that in donations to financial grant programs for low income
This is always after other financial aid has been applied to the student account. They're not going to be willing to pony up the missing chunk, I bet you.