Missouri

Because students can't bring federal grants or loans, the college has artificially low tuition and costs. But students must make them up. My niece was on a sports team and the first week, the coach told everyone that they had to send letters to 15 friends and relatives to ask for $50 donations for the team. My sister and her husband were horrified, and asked if they could just pay the $750 themselves. But the coach said no, because the school was using those names and addresses to fundraise. Which they did, until I finally got mad and told a fundraiser just why I would never consider donating to that school.

There were also far fewer activities for students (like concerts and such) because of the lack of money. My sister and I visited my niece on a Saturday afternoon and there was no place where you could sit and get a cup of coffee or a drink. Nothing was open.

I called most of her first-year classes "What White Men Wrote."

It's also the only place in the United States that is allowed to have a statue of Margaret Thatcher.