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LiberalEsto

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3. It sounds like my memory is faulty, then.

Reply to JPZenger (Reply #2)

Mon Dec 9, 2013, 07:54 AM

Dec 2013

Thanks for the correction.

The state college system in California WAS free for residents until Reagan put a stop to it, and some colleges in NYC were also free to residents.

When I started Rutgers, the state university of New Jersey in 1969, tuition was $200 a semester, fees another $65. Total of tuition, room and board was $1500 a year. At the time, my father earned $12,000 a year.

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This message was self-deleted by its author LiberalEsto Dec 2013 #1

I don't believe PA colleges were ever free JPZenger Dec 2013 #2

It sounds like my memory is faulty, then. LiberalEsto Dec 2013 #3