Summary
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | This is Planet Money from NPR. |
| 0:04.1 | About a month ago, Shreya Patel got a letter from the Business School at Rutgers University |
| 0:11.9 | in New Jersey. |
| 0:12.9 | She's a senior there, study supply chain management. |
| 0:15.4 | They sent out an email announcing that everything was going to be remote, but that email really |
| 0:19.9 | did not include anything about tuition and if it would be going down or anything like that. |
| 0:24.3 | She reads the email again, she figures they must mention it somewhere. |
| 0:27.5 | They didn't even address that in the email at all. |
| 0:29.8 | It was just kind of hidden in the FAQs. |
| 0:33.2 | So she reads the FAQ and she's like, wait, my department is going totally remote this |
| 0:38.7 | fall. |
| 0:39.7 | Shouldn't that mean I get reimbursed for all the real-life stuff that I'm not going to |
| 0:43.0 | use? |
| 0:44.0 | And the answer was no. |
| 0:45.0 | Shreya, like the dog-ed supply chain management enthusiast that she is, breaks down her school |
| 0:50.8 | bill into its elements. |
| 0:52.5 | She looks at what services she's supposed to get, who's delivering what, and how much |
| 0:56.8 | each item costs. |
| 0:57.8 | Okay, so it is $171 for computer fee, $139 for a school fee, $6,300 for tuition, and |
| 1:07.7 | then 1347 for a campus fee, so for a total of $7,957. |
| 1:13.2 | Okay, and that sounds to me like that's just one semester. |
| 1:16.3 | Yeah, that's one semester, yeah. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from NPR, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of NPR and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.