Wednesday, May 09, 2007

It's a marketing world...

even in the world of college graduations. It seems that tickets to the graduation ceremonies of colleges, including those that are not household names, have become hot items. Tickets to the graduation at the College of Charleston are being peddled on E-bay at $195 each, while tickets for the MIT graduation are going for as little as $50.

It's amazing how much things have changed in a relatively short time. My last child graduated from Middlebury in 2000. There was no market for tickets to the graduation. Just this past week, I met a grandmother who was in tears because the post office had lost the tickets to her granddaughter's graduation. Are graduation ceremonies becoming entertainment venues now?

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