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View Poll Results: How do you plan on paying for your education? | |||
Federal loan | 5 | 13.89% | |
Scholarships | 4 | 11.11% | |
Out of pocket | 6 | 16.67% | |
Combination | 15 | 41.67% | |
Other | 6 | 16.67% | |
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04-1-2013, 10:29 AM | #1 |
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How are you paying for college?
It's that time of year for applying to colleges and universities, but how do you plan on paying for it.
I plan on paying for it 75-80% federal loans and 20-25% out of pocket. edit: Lets bring in people who graduated. How did you pay for your education? How are you doing with it? Last edited by DotKritic; 04-1-2013 at 10:32 AM.. |
04-1-2013, 10:39 AM | #2 |
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Re: How are you paying for college?
Stripping.
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04-1-2013, 10:46 AM | #3 |
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Re: How are you paying for college?
It's free here 8)
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04-1-2013, 10:49 AM | #4 |
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Re: How are you paying for college?
50% parents, other half is me/loans.
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04-1-2013, 12:25 PM | #5 |
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Re: How are you paying for college?
HAHAHAHAHAHA higher education is for queers
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04-1-2013, 12:38 PM | #6 |
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Re: How are you paying for college?
i went to community college and paid out of pocket. its very hard to work full time and also go to school full time though. so be careful.
at the 4 year school, i'm most likely taking out loans
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04-1-2013, 01:30 PM | #7 |
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Re: How are you paying for college?
Same thing, I'm almost done with my second year of college and I've paid out of pocket for what I couldn't cover on scholarships. Which is really saying something because I've never had a job until a year and a half ago, and I had essentially no savings because my parents couldn't afford to help me on anything. When I transfer to the 4-yr I'll be doing loans for what I can't cover, since I still don't make enough to really pay off school stuff and also pay rent/etc. School + work full time is rough, just like kmay said. Life of a college kid right there though.
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04-1-2013, 01:39 PM | #8 |
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Re: How are you paying for college?
My first two years were at a community college, and I was working anywhere between 30-40 hours a week. Freshman year was fully covered by my scholarship, which I lost second semester by 0.02 points of my GPA. Sophomore year, I paid out of pocket. Now I'm about graduate from a university, and the last two years were paid for with federal loans/grants.
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04-1-2013, 01:00 PM | #9 |
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Re: How are you paying for college?
Out of pocket. Kept failing year after year, such a waste of money...
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04-1-2013, 01:46 PM | #10 |
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Re: How are you paying for college?
How I pay is use half of my parents money and half of it from OSAP loans from the government. I won't be getting OSAP in my September semester because I'll be below the required amount of courses of 5 to be eligible for OSAP (have to be full-time) but I will be full time in the January semester. I was originally planning to go to school for a semester in the spring/summer but then other things came up, so my graduation got delayed even further.
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04-1-2013, 05:27 PM | #11 |
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Re: How are you paying for college?
I go to a community college and I get all my college paid for by FAFSA grants. Basically since I'm poor I get the full amount
So my grants cover 3 terms. The cost of tuition for 3 terms is about $3,300. Books for 3 terms I will say are about 600 bucks for all 3 terms(costs about $300 per term but I get about $100 back when I sell them) I get a total of $8,800 for all 3 terms all of which I don't have to pay back unless I fail classes. I basically get like 600 bucks a month to just spend on anything I like. So basically I go to school for free and get paid like a part time job just for being poor xD When I have to transfer things won't work in my favor though(damn universities)
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04-1-2013, 05:32 PM | #12 |
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Re: How are you paying for college?
i go to a private liberal arts school aka a lot of money
i'll be 20k in debt, which isn't too bad imo
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04-1-2013, 05:52 PM | #13 |
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Re: How are you paying for college?
when I was going to school in 2011-2012, I paid out of pocket for all credit hours...then I lost my job! Yayyyyy.....
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04-1-2013, 06:15 PM | #14 |
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Re: How are you paying for college?
$155/semester out of pocket. No big deal compared to nearly everyone else. Temp work easily cover it.
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04-1-2013, 07:44 PM | #15 |
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Re: How are you paying for college?
fed aid, poker monies & tutoring/teaching monies
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04-1-2013, 07:44 PM | #16 |
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Re: How are you paying for college?
Thus far I have made it through 3 years of university on scholarships and minimal parental support (read: I live at home), where I only pay out of pocket for my parking pass/textbooks.
Otherwise, that will continue through my fourth year (already obtained another $1500+ from scholarships that I applied for this semester). If necessary, I've got several thousand saved, and I'll be doing research all summer (yay NSERC grant) that will net me another $6300. It also helps that I work at the university alongside taking 5 classes... my days are hectic, but I make decent money (a grand a month from my four different jobs) for what doesn't feel like very strenuous work. That supports my espresso addiction, and generally keeps me out of trouble until pub trivia nights. |
04-1-2013, 07:58 PM | #17 |
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Re: How are you paying for college?
Pay out of the pocket when I take classes. Usually about 600 per class give or take the credit hours per class.
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04-1-2013, 10:04 PM | #18 |
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Re: How are you paying for college?
It's free.
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04-1-2013, 10:12 PM | #19 |
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Re: How are you paying for college?
All I have to say is fuck the US college system
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04-2-2013, 05:24 PM | #20 |
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Re: How are you paying for college?
this thread needs more of this.
it's not worth your money the library is free and i learn more by lending books from there than i ever did in a class room or lecture hall. information that actually pertains to my interests, at that. and is it just me or are the jobs that get laid-off the most are the ones that require degrees? oh. who knows, maybe being in debt is fun? i won't know debt until my parents die and their mortgage payments get transferred to me, but by then i'll probably have saved enough money by NOT going to college to pay it off easily. |
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