A league of our own

And no one to play

Would you say that this is a pretty good group of schools—Dartmouth, Amherst, Wesleyan, Rice (“the Hammer of God”), Haverford, Lafayette, and Macalester? On average, in 2009 it cost them $73,300 to educate each of their students. It cost Princeton $147,991. That is 100% more than the others—twice as much. Macalester can educate more than three students for the cost of one student at Princeton. [fn [1]]

[1] And don’t tell me that a Princeton education is better (much less 100% better) than the education provided by these other schools. “...how slight and fragile are the circumstances that exalt one group of human beings over another.” The Green Fields of the Mind, A. Bartlett Giamatti.