joseph- it’s a totally fair point, and I think everything you think is completly valid. BTW I do not suggest university is for everyone, and if you can afford/get scholarships to Turro and the sort, then by all means you’ll be paying for jewish education on top of your degree.
But, like you said I am not coming out on the same madreigah I went in. I am coming out a more solidified frum girl, who is learning to navigate the system I will BH encounter everyday when I am working. I plan on being in a hospital one day, and I am learning how to maintain my frummkeit while still being able to work at a job I am good at. I don’t feel as though learning physiology and biology are kfira being stuffed into my head. Philosophy courses are a different conversation. But honestly, don’t make such general statements if you aren’t directly invovled. I would hope you would have more faith in people like me, who aren’t going because they want to be in that environment. They are going so they can support their families and the kolleim and schools in their communites.