Davidson students get free trip to Sweet 16

[Bob Slydell]

I'm sure they'll love the trip until they get drilled by the Badgers.

Then they'll get riddled by bullets in Detroit.

$385 million endowment or not, it's a nice gesture by the school. You think for 41K a year they'll travel nice?

 

[D-3 Fan]

That is sweet to read that. Props to Davidson. Take that you pompous-ass big school hypocrites. You have enough money to send your big money boosters, and then tell your students to go **** themselves and find their own way to the Sweet 16.

 

[SportsGuyBCK]

It's actually some of the members of the college's board of trustees that are putting up the money for the trip, not the college itself

 

[slappy4428]

They gotta pay people to go to Detroit.

That's not news.

Nice....
And for 41 large a year, they need to be chartering a plane

 

[John]

They gotta pay people to go to Detroit.

That's not news.

Nice....
And for 41 large a year, they need to be chartering a plane

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

 

[D-3 Fan]

They gotta pay people to go to Detroit.

That's not news.

Nice....
And for 41 large a year, they need to be chartering a plane

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

Davidson...the Harvard of the South.

 

[Ace]

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.

 

[PeteyPirate]

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.

 

[Moderator1]

Davidson's excellent reputation is well earned. Not sure, though, that any place is worth 41,000 a year.

 

[PeteyPirate]

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.

 

[Moderator1]

Well, hell, that makes up the difference right there. All those quarters I had to send through the mail *** it adds up.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

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 bull**** major, do it at a public school for a third of the price..."

 

[Stoney]

Davidson's endowment in 2005 was about $385 million, so it's probably over $400 million today. It can afford a few bus tickets.

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.

 

[Monroe Stahr]

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.

 

[Stoney]

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

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

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

 

[Mizzougrad96]

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

Does this mean Davidson will now be thought of as highly as Cleveland State, Richmond and Kent State (or whatever the hell it's called now...)?

 

[Ace]

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

Does this mean Davidson will now be thought of as highly as Cleveland State, Richmond and Kent State (or whatever the hell it's called now...)?

Cleveland State is in a class by itself.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

Steerage?

 

[Ace]

Ouch.