The biggest issues I think comes from the facts that A) there are a handful of very predatory schools with huge inter/national outreach programmes and B) highschool students are pressured into choosing their college path before graduating HS, when they're still a kid.
The kids don't know how to actually evaluate their options and end up picking the big, expensive schools just off brand recognition alone. Lots of people fell for this trap and graduated with degrees that weren't very competitive to state degrees and cost 2-10x more.
I think the next 10 years are going to see students' debt at graduation decrease as community college enrollment keeps going up and the stigma of "community college" education, which was a big deterrant for a long time, goes away.
Sounds like you answered your own question there. Tuition for foreign students is expensive because the ones who come here almost always have family that can pay for it. Like I said above, no American is spending $70k per year for undergrad studies. The smart ones are going to community colleges, which are becoming free in some capacity across most states, building up a GPA, and then transferring to a University off scholarships.
I spent 7 years in school without paying anything for tuition, everything was covered by scholarships. I've known many people with the same experience
Then why didn't you send your kid to school in your country? Americans do not pay $70k for undergrad tuition unless it's a very expensive study.
(E: the OP corrected me below that theyre not from the Great North. Ill still leave this next part up to demonstrate that universities charge a lot more for international students than domestic but I acknowledge that I jumped the gun here)
The fact that you use the $ symbol, have socialized college tuition, and are not from the US makes me think you're Canadian. I did the reverse of your situation and used this tuition fee lookup tool from UToronto to see what I would be paying for a year of medical school. Came out to a little under $46k/ for the 2025-26 school year.
Fun thing I learned recently: You know that pigs' feed is made with whole bags of expired bread that are ground up? It's too expensive in labor to take the bread out of the bag so they're ground up, plastic and all. You think that doesn't make it's way into the meat that we eat?
Seriously. If you haven't switched your party affiliation to Independent, how's the time to do it. It'll take a pretty big hit to their register to actually get the lames in D.C. to care about us again
In that case they're probably fishing for active numbers, seeing which ones are real out of the list they bought online. You should never say the word "yes," when you're on the phone with someone you don't trust. Scammers will record that, clip it, and use it to cause all kinds of harm impersonating you
The biggest victims of phone scams are the elderly. Typically very socially isolated, lonely, and sometimes suffering from cognitive decline. Does anyone ever fall for it? You've got to ask yourself why the scammers would go through so much trouble if it never worked.
Ah man thats an unpopular one, I've got to ask why? I loathe that episode and skip it everything it comes on shuffle. Mac and Charlie Die has got to be my pick for IASIP
Let the old fucks who overwhelmingly voted for this suffer. Maybe they're still cognizant enough to realize what they did to themselves