<p>wow kevin ur doing a great job of answering everyone’s questions. umm if it’s not too much trouble could you once again explain how work-study works I’m still a little confused. My impression was that it was 3000 I had to earn and if I didn’t I would need to take out a loan or find a way to make up the difference. Isn’t the idea of work-study to help pay for school and not personal expenses?</p>
<p>@PennGrl09: The money you earn from work-study goes into your pocket every week just how you would get paid at any other normal job. Therefore, you can definitely use your work-study earnings to help pay for school (fees, books, etc.) or you can spend it on personal expenses (groceries, restaurants, fun, etc.). It’s completely up to you. However, I believe it’s supposed to be used for the personal expenses because it’s not like you get all $3,000 at once. You will probably earn $50 - $75 a week. At that rate, it can be pretty hard to pay the entire balance you might be expected to pay every month on your Penn Pay bill (where you’ll have to pay for tuition, fees, housing, and meal plans). That doesn’t mean you can’t use part or all of your work-study money to help pay your Penn Pay bill, though. I just expect you’ll use loan money, grants, and scholarships to pay the majority of your Penn Pay bill.</p>
<p>Also, keep in mind that when Penn calculates your financial aid package they start with something called like “The Total Cost of Penn.” “The Total Cost of Penn” includes tuition, room and board, books, as well as transportation and personal expenses. I believe transportation and personal expenses total ~$2,000. Therefore, you can easily imagine your work-study money going toward those expenses. It’s not like Penn is giving you the work-study only to be used towards paying for Penn Pay stuff. They took a Penn student’s average personal expenses into account when calculating your financial aid package. Understand? :)</p>
<p>oh! yes that was a very clear answer i get it ty so much =]</p>
<p>If you apply for the position as an ITA, will you most likely be accepted, or do many applicants get turned down? Does it depend on how many ITAs are already at each house? Also, about how many ITAs are there for each house?</p>
<p>I’m interested, but unfortunately I have little to no technical experience; I’m more into things like web designing and such.</p>
<p>@Claris: As long as you have work-study, it’s very likely you’ll be accepted. Every house wants to have some freshman ITAs, to keep the ITA program healthy (i.e. no “gaps” in classes). The number of applicants that get turned down varies from house to house. Most are turned down because either they don’t have work-study or don’t have enough customer service experience. ITAs should be better at customer service than they are at having tech skills. As one of the leaders in the program once told me, it’s much easier to learn tech skills than it is customer service skills.</p>
<p>Since you’re considering Stouffer, there are about 10 ITAs in Stouffer. Stouffer is smaller than the other houses, so the other houses have more ITAs…maybe 15-20.</p>
<p>can you apply to couple different work study jobs and then pick and chose which one you want to do?</p>
<p>@starcrane721: Yes, if you get multiple offers you just accept the one you want and decline the ones you don’t want.</p>
<p>I heard something about how you can only do up to 20 hrs.? Does that mean you can only do 20 hrs a week?</p>
<p>As a student you are limited to working a maximum of 20hours per week when classes are in session. During breaks you can work full time though.</p>
<p>Thanks so much for your response. It’s probably not worth it to stay during break to work full time though because then you have restaurant expenses and I’m sure most house jobs don’t operate during breaks.</p>
<p>Okay I’ve been reading and I haven’t really seen this question asked or referred to anywhere, but is there a deadline for applying to be an ITA? See, I have no work experience (so no real customer service experience) and I really want to start a summer job before I apply to increase my chances but I’m worried I won’t have time to. I guess I’d like to be able to apply mid to late June. Is this an issue?</p>
<p>@stonecoldreject: The deadline for incoming freshman to apply to be an ITA is Friday, June 19. That date may or may not be on the online application, but I have inside info. ;)</p>
<p>thanks kevin! and honestly do I not have a shot at all if I have no customer service experience? (but I do have workstudy…)</p>
<p>@stonecoldreject: You definitely have a chance if you are work-study. Other than that, it depends on how many ITAs your College House is going to hire. But if you are worried about not being accepted into the program, you can always apply to several different jobs and accept whichever one gives you an offer.</p>
<p>What are my chances if I don’t have work-study?
I don’t have customer service experience but I’m pretty good with both people and computers.</p>
<p>@kitczh: Unfortunately your chances aren’t very good, but I still think you should apply. Who knows? Depending on your college house and computer experience, they might still hire you. There’s no penalty for applying…</p>
<p>What other work/study jobs are available?? When do we apply for these - I cant t=do the IT one as I am terrible at computers!</p>
<p>@Cardinaldreams: You can search for work-study jobs at [Student</a> Employment Office](<a href=“Submit My Documents”>Submit My Documents) and apply for those jobs at any time of the year.</p>
<p>If I’ve got too hard of a workload as a Freshman, but don’t realize that until the middle of Freshman year, do you know if I can drop being an ITA so I can concentrate on homework?</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>@qwertylad: You might not be able to drop being an ITA (because your College House won’t be planning on finding a replacement), but you can work with your manager to reduce your hours so you have more time for studying. However, the help-desk shifts offer a lot of time to work on homework, so the two items aren’t mutually exclusive.</p>