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- From: s907459@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Ka Wo Anthony Liu)
- Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
- Subject: Re: Your university making $$$ out of you?
- Date: 17 Nov 1992 01:55:44 GMT
- Organization: RMIT Computer Centre
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- hpang@engin.umich.edu (Ho Sun Pang) writes:
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- >Some examples:
- >(1) $200 a term "Instructional Technology Fee" for all engineering students
- >(2) $900 a year of trash health insurance from your university, in which you
- > must pay first, then make the insurance claim
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- My godness! This is a robbery! $900 a year for health insurance?
- You definitly need it coz you'll be fainted after you heard it.
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- >(3) $70 non-refundable signup fee for simply buying a meal-plan
- >(4) 16.9% A.P.R. for any overdue balance on your student account
- >(5) $0.50 a piece of laser printout
- >(6) use the textbook by your professor, which the book is not very good, the
- > size not very big, but charge you $60 a piece
- >(7) $70-90 registration fee a term
- >(8) $50-80 "Building and Facilities Maintenance Fee" a term
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- >Frankly, I found some very pretigious schools do these kind of things. The
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- It doesn't matter whether it is a pretigious school, every uni practise
- this sort of thing (especially to overseas students).
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- Anthony.
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