College tuition (1021 hits)
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Submitted by <Barid_Bel_Medar.at.excite.com> (View user info) at 2003-08-15 11:04:05 EDT
I go to college at a state school, NDSU, and my tuition bill for fall semester is a little over $2000. After rent, food, Xbox games,lots of booze, etc. I figure I spend approximately $10,000 a year for an excellent engineering education. Across the river is a liberal arts college, Concordia. For tuition, room and board, and no food, you have to pay $21,400. What's even worse, you can attend NDSU, and if they don't have the classes you want/need, you can pay NDSU tuition, and take Concordia classes.
Can anyone explain what the fuck the people that go there are thinking?
I'm also wondering what other colleges charge for tuition. I wouldn't fork over 20 grand unless I was going someplace like MIT or Stanford.
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Submitted by Goldeneyes (user info) at 2003-12-30 22:39:04 EST (#)
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Tell your parents they should have started to save for your college education when you were a kid - that you could have gone to a "better" school if they hadn't been too damn cheap to think about YOUR future! That'll make them feel all warm and fuzzy! :-)
Submitted by indoninja (user info) at 2003-12-30 22:01:23 EST (#)
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Submitted by Thanatos (user info) at 2003-08-15 12:01:03 (#)
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Being economical? How is a liberal arts degree holder ever going to recoup the $80,000 cost of college? I'll admit I am taking longer than I should to graduate, but at the moment I owe less than $5000 in student loans, while I have close to $8000 worth of stock and I have enough cash to cover 2 semesters of tuition.
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If you have that much in stock and that much cash, pay off the student loans immediately. Chances are extremely low that your investments are paying off more then the interest on your loans is accumulating.
I graduated college 25 grand in debt, mostly because I partied like a rockstar, and paid for it all myself(well with uncle sam as well), and I paid it all off my first year out of college by selling my soul to an Oil company. That should be priority #1 after graduation paying off that loan. If you can do it now then go for it.
Submitted by indoninja (user info) at 2003-12-30 21:53:39 EST (#)
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Don't let the system fuck you fuck the system. If you are going to an out of state school, stay there over the summer, take classes or work but get a residence there. You can probably get a cheap summer sublet, but even if you can't it will pay off when you get in State tuition. You will probably have to get a new drivers liscence, but who cares, and in state tuition might not kick in for a year but, if you do this after freshman summer your last two years will be cheaper.
It also helps to get declared financially independent from your parents. This is no problem if you were in the military, full time military will be old enough to be independent when you get out anyway, but if you joined the reserves and are going to school at the same time it is pretty easy to be claimed as independent.
If you are smart pick up a ROTC scholarship. You can get them to pay for the first two years of school for free with no committment. Or you could be like me and get kicked during your third year of free schooling for medical reasons(alcoholism is a disease, although the meetings and counselors I had to go through were no fun, being sick was..is?).
It isn't that hard to transfer after your first or second year, so if you want a better school on your diploma keep your grades up and then transfer.
Submitted by ilCacciatore (user info) at 2003-12-30 21:30:06 EST (#)
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I was looking at annual costs for a few universities that I am considering for law school. 40-60k a year is a fair estimate (with room and board). Hello debt!
Submitted by Jimmy23 (user info) at 2003-08-15 14:30:17 EDT (#)
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whats a kick ass school? I figure, my tuiton for four years will be 10 grand. Thats for four years. No finicial aid, no scholarship money. How? I go to ucf, and its cheap. I dont know why, its a kick ass school. Huge too. 47,000 students will be there in spring. But its big. BIG.
Submitted by alkaline (user info) at 2003-08-15 13:34:35 EDT (#)
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I will be attending Kings College (located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada) in September, with hopes to attain a degree in Journalism and my tuition for my year is roughly $5500 CND. Taking into account that i'm living at home and not in residence, i will be saving roughly $8000-10000, so fourtunitly I wont have to spend more, but seeing what some of my friends are paying to go to schools in other parts of North America, its absolutly insane. A buddy of mine is paying just under $15000CND to go to Acadia (Nova Scotia), another guy i know is paying close to $20000CND to go to Western (somewhere in western Canada), and to take the cake another friend of mine is paying somewhere close to $40000US to attend Harvard - which means he will be paying roughly $70000CND each year - although he was VERY lucky to get a $34000US scolership to help him along the way.
Nevertheless, I completely agree with your argument that the cost to get an education are fucking insane.
Submitted by NickTheDivine (user info) at 2003-08-15 12:37:30 EDT (#)
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MIT and Stanford, like many top tier colleges, are running $40,000 and above for tuition and room and board.
Submitted by lucid (user info) at 2003-08-15 12:20:10 EDT (#)
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Community College is like an extenstion of High School for people that were too lazy or too stupid to find grants to go to a real school.
If you're going to go to college, go to a kickass school and get a kickass education.
Community college or some no name school in the boon docks is a waste of time and money.
Submitted by Thanatos (user info) at 2003-08-15 12:01:03 EDT (#)
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Being economical? How is a liberal arts degree holder ever going to recoup the $80,000 cost of college? I'll admit I am taking longer than I should to graduate, but at the moment I owe less than $5000 in student loans, while I have close to $8000 worth of stock and I have enough cash to cover 2 semesters of tuition. I don't seee anyone from Concordia that doesn't have A)undeserved scholarships, B) Daddy paying all the bills, or the least popular choice C) tons of student loans.
Submitted by xLisaCatx (user info) at 2003-08-15 11:40:24 EDT (#)
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I beg to differ Razor. While many students may not appreciate the type of education received at say a community college, students will realize that going to a prestigious university is well worth the money spent (or debt incurred).
Yes there are people who are limited by the amount of money a school requests, but at the same time they are also considering campus size, living conditions, community, etc.
The choice of higher education has everything to do with being economical here in the states.
Submitted by congo (user info) at 2003-08-15 11:31:08 EDT (#)
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>>>I'm also wondering what other colleges charge for tuition. I wouldn't fork over 20 grand unless I was going someplace like MIT or Stanford.
If you went to someplace like MIT or Stanford, be prepared to fork
over something closer to 33 grand.
Submitted by Insanethemind (user info) at 2003-08-15 11:18:34 EDT (#)
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I was attending a private culinary arts school here in Florida and I was paying $5,100 per semester. That was night tuition, the day students pay $5,800.
To be a chef and make shit pay for a few years while working 14-18 hour days.
Needless to say, I changed my mind about that.
I can still cook like a mofo though.
Submitted by EH (user info) at 2003-08-15 11:16:10 EDT (#)
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USAFA,USMCA,USNA, They actually pay you money to attend their school, plus they give you the option of taking a 40,000 dollar loan at the end of your four years, with like 2% interest!
Submitted by SubstnceP (user info) at 2003-08-15 11:09:22 EDT (#)
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NO...no I can't.
Submitted by Razor (user info) at 2003-08-15 11:09:08 EDT (#)
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People do not make sound economic decisions when it comes to college. It happens all the bloody time.