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[GA Russell]

10 hours ago, Kevin Bresnahan said:

I'm pretty shocked that the "Local TV/Media" for the NFL even shows up as part of the pie. I assume that's just for preseason games. I would have thought that the NFL had to give that away.

My guess is that the local media rights for the NFL is mostly for the radio networks.

[GA Russell]

 

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[GA Russell]

I would like to know who are the people who are charged the list price.

[Kevin Bresnahan]

7 hours ago, GA Russell said:

I would like to know who are the people who are charged the list price.

I don't understand your question. In private schools like these, everyone pays the same tuition. Not everyone pays room & board - if the college even allows off campus housing. State schools usually offer discounted tuition for state residents.

The only reduction in tuition at a private school is through grants. Grants were getting harder to get about 15 years ago when my youngest started college. Her school of choice offered her $0.00 in grant money. It would have cost her (and me) about $45K/year, so she didn't go there. This year, that school's estimated costs are over $68K. I imagine grants are even harder to get today.

Loans should never be considered any sort of discount. Loans are just delayed payments with interest, so really just delayed payment with a huge adder. I bet if someone re-did this chart with the typical loans associated with it, the top number would be something like $160K/year.

[GA Russell]

Kevin, are you saying they don't give college scholarships anymore?

[Kevin Bresnahan]

3 minutes ago, GA Russell said:

Kevin, are you saying they don't give college scholarships anymore?

Not when my daughters went in the late 00's. Only grants & loans. Scholarships might be a big private school thing, like Harvard, but they have endowments galore so they can probably do that.

[GA Russell]

 

[Dub Modal]

Incredible goal. 

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[Kevin Bresnahan]

4 hours ago, GA Russell said:

The first thing I would say to this is that I don't believe it at all & AI agrees, saying this about World Population Review, "The website is generally reliable but should be used with caution as it does not always provide accurate information." In this particular instance, how the hell could they come up with this number? Who reports every book they read in a public way? Do any of you do this? This seems more likely a statistic from some website like Goodreads, which is going to exclude a ton of non-readers by definition. Someone who doesn't read books is not going to open a Goodreads account.

The other thing I would add is that when I was still working, there were many mornings spent around the breakroom table where I was pretty much the only one who regularly talked about books I was reading.

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1 hour ago, Kevin Bresnahan said:

The first thing I would say to this is that I don't believe it at all & AI agrees, saying this about World Population Review, "The website is generally reliable but should be used with caution as it does not always provide accurate information." In this particular instance, how the hell could they come up with this number? Who reports every book they read in a public way? Do any of you do this? This seems more likely a statistic from some website like Goodreads, which is going to exclude a ton of non-readers by definition. Someone who doesn't read books is not going to open a Goodreads account.

The other thing I would add is that when I was still working, there were many mornings spent around the breakroom table where I was pretty much the only one who regularly talked about books I was reading.

Great points. And what about those people that read several books at the same time, rarely finishing one before picking up another? Asking for a friend ...

[JSngry]

I am reading this.