Davidson students get free trip to Sweet 16

I'm willing to bet that more than a few Davidson students have parents with their own planes.

 

Davidson...the Harvard of the South.

 

Seriously, is Davidson well thought of in academic // hiring circles?

41 grand sounds like an awful lot to go to a college with no name recognition.

 

Brother-in-law went there, but he's not an elite by any stretch. His story is kind of interesting because a local benefactor took an interest in him (high-achieving only child of a single schoolteacher) and paid his tuition for undergrad and law school. To address Davidson's reputation: Yes, it's very well thought of academically, and the workload is freaking rigorous, or so say some others I know who went there.

And my brother-in-law has been popping the Steph Curry replica jersey my sister got him for Christmas.

 

Another thing that was addressed in the story but not on the board is the free laundry service for Davidson students (or included in the $41K, if you want). That doesn't mean they can do their laundry for free. It means they can drop off their laundry and pick it up the next day, pressed and folded.

 

If you're going to pay that kind of coin to go to a school, it better be one that guarantees you a top job the second you graduate...

I have a friend whose daughter is going to a liberal arts school that almost nobody has heard of and he's paying $38K a year for her to study philosophy...

People can have the conversation with their kids "You know if you're going to have a bullshit major, do it at a public school for a third of the price..."

 

That, plus the 41K per year tuition, is certainly relevant here. It's a nice gesture, but this isn't exactly a charitable act for the needy that we're talking about here. It's a rich school doing something for a group of predominantly rich kids who they hope will be generous alumni contributors someday.

 

Davidson is smaller (1,700 enrollment) than many Division III schools. That's why they can do it. There are that many people taking a leak at most state universities at any one moment.

 

Only 1700 students and a $400 million endowment? Yeah, I think they can afford it.

 

Pretty campus and collegetown, too.
I think it is also very well thought-of as a pre-law, pre-med, undergrad institution.