Ivy League Caught Printing BILLIONS While BILKING Students | Breaking Points

Saagar discusses in his monologue the Ivy League schools caught scamming the education system.

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[LukeBender]

How is this not a bigger story? Students should be protesting at schools for a change to this corruption.

[Cbart]

They operate like insurance companies that don’t pay out claims….

[Opposed_Motoring]

I’m a union tradesman and I build and work at Princeton all the time. They’re currently dumping $6B into construction building all kinds of crazy shit. They literally basically print money over there it’s nuts

[Cbart]

“We used to build shit in this country; Now we just stick our hand in the other guys pocket” - Frank Sobotka, The Wire, S2.

[TheSchev]

I found out that my college. at Cornell, was already FULLY endowed (50 years ago) - and the education was not even worth the enormous cost to me.

[julkerkhan]

When I was applying to colleges in 2017, I got into a few of the ivy leagues (Cornell and Dartmouth) and was shocked to find that Cornell didn’t offer any significant aid and Dartmouth offered me over $12000 in loans(over 4 years). I was floored as I grew up in a single parent (essentially undocumented immigrant) household that lived essentially hand to mouth every month. I ended up going to Berkeley but was very hurt to see billion dollar endowments saying no to make college affordable for me.

[billykuan]

The University system is not strengthening our country but creating a weaker society so taxing them would be a way for them to pay back what they have broken. Individuals benefit but the oligarch consolidates in this system. Tax them tax them deep.

[TCR]

People have beeen warning about the actual universities for years. It’s not the loans, it’s the outrageous tuition that seems to go into their own pockets

[fishman]

Great job Saagar, one of best pieces!

[tenorjosh]

If I knew what I know now I would never have gone to college. I’m just gonna say one thing. When I went to college all the adults told me we HAD to or we would be losers and wouldn’t be able to get a job. All I can say is sometimes the adults are completely wrong.

[kdhKJFGiht]

Great to finally have published proof of this! Thanks!

[peteblum]

😡 EVERY American should hear this and be VERY ANGRY 😡

[meluvYT]

i don’t understand why there’s no outrage from students and their parents over college costs in general

[erikchristensen]

I just started looking up endowments for state schools, and although they aren't as large as Princeton, they are still large. I didn't know this existed and now I'm even more pissed that I payed $300, 000 to go to dental school. I am still thankful that my education resulted in a good career.

[kelvinreyes]

The current college system is outdated and frankly dead. The majority of degrees don’t give you a good enough ROI for the amount of debt you’re going to take out.

A better route is trade school or entrepreneurship.

[BrianWenger]

My favorite types of BP videos: ridiculing Kamala, and Saagar trashing universities.

[cristalstart]

Makes me sick to even thinking about my 3 boys future university cost. I studied for FREE in my country, and I can’t even conceive how I could manage to pay $80, 000 a year per child. Or would ever advise my children to take student loans.

[RoadTripTravel]

Wow, this is a fascinating (albeit troubling) topic. This is just one of the many reasons I love your show!

[andreasbyczkowski]

Superb reporting! If only Indy Media had been around twenty years ago to clarity these issues, we would be further along to betterment instead of now being faced with reigning in super-DC-connected financial behemoths protecting their perks! Sheesh!

[maximilianrockefeller]

After haggling with my college about why I didn't need a 101 World Cultures course (while taking 400 and 500-level east Asian studies classes as a freshman), I learned long ago higher education is a business *first* and an institution of education somewhere further down the list of priorities. Don't get it twisted, that education was valuable, but *nowhere* near what I paid (and am still paying) for it.