<p>For me though, King’s is good because I get to be in the city, for a good price out of pocket, I may not be doing EXACTLY what i want to do academically but I’m still at an accredited place (even though it just happened recently).</p>
<p>Thoughts?</p>
<p>@ksar; I’m not the OP, just the newer person we’re talking about. Lol.</p>
<p>^I forgot that Julian had stopped visiting the thread. 
Sorry!</p>
<p>Stohare–if NYC is like a lot of the other metropolitan areas around the country, you may be able to some classes at different schools all over the city and tailor your program to what you want it to be.</p>
<p>@MD Mom, what do you mean exactly? Like take college courses at different colleges throughout NYC? How do I do that???</p>
<p>You have to check what is available. For example, in Massachusetts, Amherst, Smith (I think), UMass-Amherst, and a couple of other schools have a co-op. This is true for Bryn Mawr, Swarthmore, Penn, and Haverford also. In Pittsburgh there are several; CMU and Pitt plus a couple of others. The question you need to ask–or phrase to search is-- whether the school offers a co-op or if they have an agreement with other schools. It probably shouldn’t be the first question you ask, but it is a good question. You obviously are limited to the number of courses, and the logistics of the whole thing can be tricky, but it is something to consider.</p>
<p>Forgive the spelling–too lazy to look them up.</p>
<p>Stohare, The way I see this, King’s will cost you $12,500 plus food, personal expenses and transportation. Is that correct?</p>
<p>My breakdown of Kings fin.aid w/loans:</p>
<p>Cost of attendance in total ~$37,500 + indirect expenses ~$10,000 (food, travel, personal).</p>
<p>Scholarship = $21,000
Outside Scholarship = $4,500
Federal Loans = $11,900 (both stafford’s, perkins, plus loan denial)
Total = 37,400</p>
<p>Out of pocket directly ~$100
Out of pocket indirect ~10,000</p>
<p>You see, the $10k is so flexible depending on how much I eat/where I eat, how I travel, how much I spend in the city. Plus, since its indirect, I dont have a “deadline” to pay for these things. There are weeks I can pay more, and weeks I can pay less depending on me.</p>
<p>The $11,900 in loans will be paid down throughout the year as well, we just cant pay all that upfront.</p>
<p>Oh! And I want to graduate in 3 year from wherever I go by taking summer/online courses to cut down costs. Those I can take at CC whenever I’m home.</p>
<p>And though $11,900 looks like a lot in student loans, that is what it is going to be NO MATTER where I go.</p>
<p>–@bthomp1: I agree with you 100%. But, the cost I would pay for IU now is the amount I would be paying for NYU at this point (minus their scholarships and all). So, it is not really an option. Plus, my main concern about IU is that I had to turn down their scholarship, Kelly School of Business, AND their Honors College (which are both full now, I called)… so what will that give me? A regular IU degree… with no scholarships and the regular college of arts and science.–</p>
<p>The cost at NYU with their aid is the same as IU with no scholarships? Then you must be getting about 32K of grants and scholarships [“free money”, in other words] from NYU, since their COA is 50.5K. You can attend IU with no scholarships and do tuition, fees, r/b for about 18K a year. My son is in-state and does it with their cheapest housing for 16.8K a year, all of which is scholarship money.</p>
<p>I don’t know why you think you have no chance of getting into the Kelley Business Honors program or the Hutton Honors College. You can still get into both. The common route (the route that applies to more than 90% of the business honors students) to get into Business Honors is to apply during the second semester of your freshmen year. You don’t have to be a “direct admit” of the business school to get into business honors; you don’t even have to have been accepted by the business school yet. Also, if you take a minimum of 14 credits and get a 3.7+ gpa your Fall semester at IU, you can apply as a University Division (undecided) student and get automatic acceptance to the Hutton Honors College. </p>
<p>You are looking for ways to dismiss IU, and I understand that. But the points that you think the two honors programs are closed to you, the fact that a lot of kids from your hs go there, and the fact that you can’t do year round internships in NYC if you go to IU are either just plain inaccurate or not very strong reasons to some people for dismissing IU. But I totally understand if you just plain don’t like the school. That is a great reason for not attending. </p>
<p>[Business</a> Honors Program: Academics: Undergraduate Program: Kelley School of Business: Indiana University Bloomington](<a href=“Undergraduate: Programs: Kelley School of Business: Indiana University”>Undergraduate: Programs: Kelley School of Business: Indiana University)</p>
<p>[Information</a> for Prospective Students](<a href=“http://www.indiana.edu/~iubhonor/hds/admissions.php]Information”>http://www.indiana.edu/~iubhonor/hds/admissions.php)</p>
<p>Yeah, I really do not like IU. I hated the campus, I hated Bloomington, and I hated the classes I went to.</p>
<p>The first thing you should know is that food in New York is expensive so don’t count on those expenses being low. </p>
<p>Honestly, I understand the finances behind your plan but I have a question for you (and bear with me please). <em>If</em> you took off a year, would you be eligible for that IU scholarship again? I have to tell you, IU is going to be a much better business school than King’s. I have a relative who is a top Wall Street banker and he went to school at U-Michigan (for grad school, his undergrad was actually not even in the U.S.). Yes, he lives in NY now but he didn’t go to school there.</p>
<p>I cross-posted. If you really want to do business, I think you need to weigh whether or not you are cutting your nose to spite your face. </p>
<p>I really wonder if you can’t find some other schools-- maybe some schools with a stronger business track record-- that will give you scholarship $. In NY, I actually think Pace and CUNYs would be stronger than King’s.</p>
<p>Yes I’d be eligible… I think? Well the reasoning behind King’s is that I want to go to grad school THEN business field. So my undergrad wont matter job-wise… just getting INTO a good grad school. Which then again can be all test scores for college.</p>
<p>And I’ve been talking a lot of King’s students on facebook and they ALL love it. They say it challenges them a lot and they have immense internship opportunities and alumni connections (somehow). Most go to really good grad schools too.</p>
<p>You know what? I don’t agree with you but I will tell you what I told my own kids, “It’s YOUR life. YOU get to decide. Everything in life is a choice and you have to make it and move on.” That’s pretty much what I told one of my kids 6 years ago when she turned down a scholarship at IU to attend another school because of the weather. She now says I should have pushed her more to go to IU but, you know what? She wouldn’t be saying that if I had pushed her. You go through life once. You need to make decisions you can live with.</p>
<p>I can respect your opinion. But, I’m not making any decisions until I visit next week.</p>
<p>I don’t understand why some poster keep insisting on IU. I think its a dead issue. He does not want to go there and has made it quite clear. Enough already.</p>
<p>@Milkandsugar, thanks! I cant pick a school on just a few issues. Yes they have good programs and would be semi cheap. Two things… Lol.</p>
<p>----Yes I’d be eligible… I think? Well the reasoning behind King’s is that I want to go to grad school THEN business field. So my undergrad wont matter job-wise… just getting INTO a good grad school. Which then again can be all test scores for college.----</p>
<p>I know you hate IU and aren’t going there, but they offer an MBA (top twenty program) with a concentration in accounting in five years (instead of the traditional 4 ugrad and 2 masters) through their 3/2 program. No work experience required prior to getting the MBA, and only five years to get both the ugrad and MBA. AN fYI that 3/2 programs are more common than you may think. Many, many of the top publics have them, including Purdue.</p>
<p>[MBA</a> in Accounting: Graduate Accounting Programs: Kelley School of Business: Indiana University Bloomington](<a href=“http://kelley.iu.edu/gap/mba/index.cfm]MBA”>http://kelley.iu.edu/gap/mba/index.cfm)</p>
<p>If you read awhile back in my posts, my family is getting transferred to Louisville sometime next year, so I wont qualify for in-state tuition at IU, Purdue, etc anymore.</p>