Earning an advanced degree from a selective university seems rather cost intensive.
Depending on the selective university, an advanced degree might not cost much at all. Harvard, for example, only recently started paying the way of its undergraduates, but it has paid the way of its graduate students for a long time.
True, but free tuition or not, it's plenty costly in terms of opportunity.
(This is true to an almost hilarious extent if you're a humanities scholar like me: I'm not getting those ten (!!!!!!!) years of my life back.)
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