So i just found out
 

So i just found out that i can't afford to go to the university i wanted to go to.

I got in.

Money is complete bullshit. Good luck finding another school.
My deepest sympathies.

eh, you can manage-- loans & loans & loans!

no, not really, but there are ways.


gotta rAn but i soogest you call that skool & aX them how 2pei. they mite be of elp.

I am sorry to hear that . shit. can you get a work study or something?

i dont think so, its really just thrown me, i dont really know how to handle it. Can't stop crying and being pathetic.

No loans or grants or anything? You wouldn't believe how many students just go to school on loans and work study and such.

(No, Clone-y, I don't want to get into it about the costs of education. I'm just saying...)

I wasn't going to bring that up just to bring her down.
Jeez, I can tell when someone's genuinely upset.

My son was attending a very expensive private school. Absolutely no f-ing way I could send him just paying out of my own pocket. So I talked to the financial aid people, submitted the paperwork, and they split the cost, covering half with grants and qualifying us for loans for the rest. My son wasn't even that great a student in high school.

Sometimes schools will bend over backwards to help you, if they know you really want to enroll with them. They want your money, but there are ALL KINDS of ways for them to get that--not necessarily out of your own pocket.

Talk to them!

It would cost me $26,100.00 a year thats $104,400.00 at the end of 4 years. i would never be able to afford a house or even to have children.

My mom was very resourceful in her college days. She even got a grant that was supposed to be dedicated to black women (my mom is white as can be), because it was just sitting there unclaimed and doing nothing, and the people could see she had both brains and genuine need. If you dig deep, there are an awful lot of resources available.

here I am trying to give someone (someone I admire a helluvalot more than I do you) advice that I think might help, and you do this crap. I guess this is the price we basically pay for freedom of expression in an unmonitored site, huh.

Im guessing this is in the USA? You might be able to get them to let you defer and go next year. Meantime, work for a year and get ahead on yr studies, you can start ahead of everyone else, and its a great skill to learn, invaluable in my opinion. Having some kind of financial responsibility for a time really sets you up well too, My friend did just that - got into a course and deferred, then worked to amass funds for a year, and started this year in San Francisco.
So yes, ask them if you can defer entry.

But if the school can come up with grants and scholarships and cut back some of that? I never thought my son would qualify for that kind of thing, but he basically was given half the tuition through grants and scholarships.

All I'm saying is that if this is your dream school, you should investigate thoroughly with the school, all options, before giving up.

OK, that was a sweet hijack and all, but really I think maybe a maximum of three threads to spread a fight across should be observed.

Especially when things started from some relatively innocent comments made with tongue in cheek...


I suppose this is why !@#$%! is so addicted to those goddamned smileys.

Sorry about the interruptions, Screamingskull, but seriously, check it out before giving up on it. It does suck that education is so damned expensive in the United States.

Aye and yes ask the UK end too.

Doesn't screamingskull live in the UK?

I do know that student loan payments can be deferred in the USA post-graduation if you work for a nonprofit. This was the case at one time, at least.

Oh, yeah, sorry, I forgot, SS. And I know nothing about the UK system, unfortunately.

In the UK, loan repayments could always be deferred, but I'm not sure if that's still the case.

I've been deferring mine for about 8 years now.

But when I went to university there were no course fees.

I really don't envy people going to Uni now. You're guaranteed to come out with massive debts, if you can afford to go in the first place at all.

Whatever happens screamingskull, I hope you get to do what you want in the end.

I doubt that there is a single educational institution in this country whose services are worth $26,0000 a year. I have to ask, does that price cover the amount of alcohol you will inevitably consume while you're there? If so, I take back what I just said--this place sounds like a great deal.

Sounds awful screamingskull...

BAD ADVICE.

I took that advice and I regretted it.

Whoa, that's fucking shite. I have to be grateful for having a free post-secondary level education system here. That plus the monthly student support.
Thank you tax payers for taking care of the costs of my no good graphic design degree!

I am sorry to hear that screamingskull.

sorry to hear that, you should ask about loans and all that kinda stuff

So what, you'll have to pay back about £50,000? Bloody hell that's a fair bit.

That advice of taking a year out and saving up a lot (and being restrained in your monet spendature) could help a bit.

Suck's that your choice can't go through in the end *hug*

Evergreen State?

I want to go there too. We must talk about applications and whatnot. I'm sorry for you though. Don't give up!

which college is it? and it really is awful that you cant afford it. very sorry.

shit, sorry to hear that mae, college fees are a fuckin joke really.

Wisest words on this thread so far.

yeah, its evergreen. when are you going to apply to go?


i might just take a year out and work full time save some cash, that might pay for a year.

Is it cheaper if you are a resident of the area?
You could find out how long you have to live there in order to qualify for residency and see if it's worth it to get a job and apartment there for a while. Not sure how easy this is when you aren't from the US...

its much cheaper if your already a resident of washington. But that would meen going there on a 3 month visa and trying to get a job, then once i have a job getting a work visa. Then applying to become a US citizen, and you have to have lived in the states for over 3 years to be awarded that.

I wondering if working whilst im there to help pay off my debt might work. I could work like 3 days a week while im there and give all that money to the bank to help pay it off.
Anyone know what the minimum wage in Olympia/Washington is?

I'm not sure. I was going to apply so I start the year after the second year of sixth form, but I might take a year out to help raise money.

How old are you? , no matter how many years you take out its still hard to save up £54,000.00

i think im just going to move to portland instead.

Fifteen. I've already started saving. It will help, I suppose.

how much you got saved?, ive wanted to since i was like 15 too, a friend of mine from school has already gone, he's there now lucky bastard.

Argh, the lucky fucker!

I have a modest saving. A hundred or so. I have a hard time finding a job that fits around school, you see. I'm probably going to sell all my stuff before I go too.

yeah, if i took a year out, worked solidly and sold some stuff i could could probably afford one year there. But its a 4 year course so i would still come out with debts of about £40,000.

The alternative is to go to uni in B'ham, stay living with my mum, save and save and save and when ive graduated in 2010 move to portland. which is really where i want to be. i will be 21 then and older and wiser so it might be more sensible.