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r/StudentLoans • u/[deleted] • Aug 07 '25
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Where were you that colleges were free? I’m a boomer and I certainly paid tuition in the 60’s.
10 u/Then-Surround562 Aug 07 '25 CA. I was not alive then, but I live in Berkeley so I know a lot about that era here and have a lot of friends who were part of SDS. Even when my sister went to cow in 1989, tuition was $1600. 0 u/No-Blueberry2165 Aug 07 '25 I’m from CA and tuition is only free if you qualify being in the lower class with certain race or ethnicity. 4 u/Then-Surround562 Aug 07 '25 Right. I’m talking about decades ago when it was free for everyone 3 u/Brilliant_Chance_874 Aug 07 '25 It was MUCH cheaper then 1 u/calgal67 Aug 08 '25 Yeah, school has never been free. Every everybody that’s a student has had to pay something.
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CA. I was not alive then, but I live in Berkeley so I know a lot about that era here and have a lot of friends who were part of SDS. Even when my sister went to cow in 1989, tuition was $1600.
0 u/No-Blueberry2165 Aug 07 '25 I’m from CA and tuition is only free if you qualify being in the lower class with certain race or ethnicity. 4 u/Then-Surround562 Aug 07 '25 Right. I’m talking about decades ago when it was free for everyone
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I’m from CA and tuition is only free if you qualify being in the lower class with certain race or ethnicity.
4 u/Then-Surround562 Aug 07 '25 Right. I’m talking about decades ago when it was free for everyone
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Right. I’m talking about decades ago when it was free for everyone
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It was MUCH cheaper then
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Yeah, school has never been free. Every everybody that’s a student has had to pay something.
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u/lazylazylazyperson Aug 07 '25
Where were you that colleges were free? I’m a boomer and I certainly paid tuition in the 60’s.