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Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo
None. My fellow AT workers who are paying taxes are paying for college.
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Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo
None. My fellow AT workers who are paying taxes are paying for college.
Originally posted by: Chronoshock
I'm making 50-100% more than I would have made coming out of a lesser school
Originally posted by: ducci
Student loans (federal), are some of the best you can have. Granted, it's not better than no loans - aside from building up credit - but for 0% down, no interest accumulating until you graduate, an interest rate generally on par with inflation (~3-5%), and a payment plan spanning 10-30 years, it's tough to argue against it.
Originally posted by: erub
Undergrad: I chose a top 20 engineering school, but didn't see any point in paying more for out-of-state when Texas A&M and UT were both in-state. Had scholarship offers for both, A&M's offer was better, plus I liked it better. Got paid to go to school.
Grad 1 (MSEE at GaTech): Applied to the two top 10 programs in major cities in the south - UT and Georgia Tech. Received great fellowship offer from UT, turned it down for teaching assistantship that paid half as much. Both schools covered tuition. So cost not a huge factor.
Grad 2 (possibly): MS in Information Systems at UNLV. Mainly picking it because I want to move to Las Vegas, not an outstanding school. Will only attend if I can at least get instate tution. Cost is huge factor here, it would be foolish for me to pay big money for that degree.
Originally posted by: AstroManLuca
I went to the University of Minnesota, with in-state tuition, partially because of the cost. One major factor was $10,000 in scholarship money I got for the first two years (that was almost half the total tuition). Thanks to my parents' very generous contributions once the scholarship ran out, I managed to get out without any debt at all.
The U of M is a good school - maybe not top-tier, but that's not what I was looking for. I wanted a good education and a good social experience, and I got both. I figure if I want to get a post-grad degree at some point, I can go to a nicer, more expensive school. But the U of M is just fine for undergrad.
People go a bit crazy over the school they want to go to. I knew a lot of people in high school who were obsessed with getting straight A's and would turn down full ride scholarships to great schools just so they could go to an even more prestigious one (and get $100,000 in debt just for an undergrad degree). That was never me.
Originally posted by: Special K
Also here is another article claiming that college costs may be the next bubble to burst:
link
The cost of colleges has risen at double the rate of inflation for years now. Can this trend really continue indefinitely?
Originally posted by: miketheidiot
Originally posted by: AstroManLuca
I went to the University of Minnesota, with in-state tuition, partially because of the cost. One major factor was $10,000 in scholarship money I got for the first two years (that was almost half the total tuition). Thanks to my parents' very generous contributions once the scholarship ran out, I managed to get out without any debt at all.
The U of M is a good school - maybe not top-tier, but that's not what I was looking for. I wanted a good education and a good social experience, and I got both. I figure if I want to get a post-grad degree at some point, I can go to a nicer, more expensive school. But the U of M is just fine for undergrad.
People go a bit crazy over the school they want to go to. I knew a lot of people in high school who were obsessed with getting straight A's and would turn down full ride scholarships to great schools just so they could go to an even more prestigious one (and get $100,000 in debt just for an undergrad degree). That was never me.
uofm is a top tier school bro
Originally posted by: miketheidiot
Originally posted by: Special K
Also here is another article claiming that college costs may be the next bubble to burst:
link
The cost of colleges has risen at double the rate of inflation for years now. Can this trend really continue indefinitely?
i'm sure they can find more administrative costs to tack on (which is where most of the recent increase in tuition has gone)
since i started school they added a new oracle software system to run billing and register for classes etc, and i pay 200 a semester for the privilege of using it.
Originally posted by: Special K
Also here is another article claiming that college costs may be the next bubble to burst:
link
The cost of colleges has risen at double the rate of inflation for years now. Can this trend really continue indefinitely?
Originally posted by: Special K
Originally posted by: miketheidiot
Originally posted by: Special K
Also here is another article claiming that college costs may be the next bubble to burst:
link
The cost of colleges has risen at double the rate of inflation for years now. Can this trend really continue indefinitely?
i'm sure they can find more administrative costs to tack on (which is where most of the recent increase in tuition has gone)
since i started school they added a new oracle software system to run billing and register for classes etc, and i pay 200 a semester for the privilege of using it.
They can keep adding fees on, but eventually a lot of people won't be able or willing to pay for it. The costs have been covered by increasing amounts of loans for many students, but are lenders really going to let the amounts they loan to students keep growing at this rate?