“If you could fog a mirror, you could get into the University of Florida.” That’s how a longtime Floridian described the admissions’ process of old. How things have changed. As a recent Wall Street Journal article indicated, competition to get into Florida’s flagship state university is so fierce today that students have been reduced to taking online classes while still participating in campus life.
The anecdote rates thought in response to a new article about affordability and prices in The Dispatch by the excellent Aaron Brown, a frequent contributor to RealClearMarkets. Here’s how Reason Foundation eminence Nick Gillespie described Brown’s article on X: “Why is a flat-screen TV affordable and a college education not?...Because Congress has spent 60 years trying to make college affordable and has spent zero years trying to make TVs affordable.” The bet here is that Gillespie could be persuaded to rethink his Tweet, and that Brown, author of the spectacular new book Wrong Number, could in particular be persuaded to rethink his tie of federal students loans to rising college tuition.
No, this is not a piece defending federal student loans.
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