<p>Has a lack of money ever prevented you from being able to go to your dream school or something similar? </p>
<p>It feels like college tuition costs are only continuing to rise and rise, while the rate of return from a degree is decreasing. Student loans are becoming less reliable as default rates increase.
Am I exceptional enough to be able to earn enough scholarships for a full ride or immediately secure a job out of college? I don't know. Probably not.</p>
<p>Not to sound spoiled, but my parents are paying. They don’t want me taking out loans and they;re paying for tuition. I have to buy my own clothing/textbooks/etc but tuition will be payed by them no matter where I go.</p>
<p>My parents would help me pay for it if it weren’t for the fact that we aren’t exactly financially stable.</p>
<p>I’m a 2nd year university student. I don’t have any scholarships at all (never bothered to apply). However, I don’t have any loans or debt either. The Cal Grant pays for most of my tuition, and the remaining tuition (about $400) and cost for textbooks is paid for by my parents. I don’t pay for room and board because I commute (my parents pay for gas, food etc.). Luckily, the school that I attend is what I think is the best fit for me so I’m happy.</p>
<p>In pesos.</p>
<p>Hopefully, scholarships, I really want to take out minimal loans. ROTC scholarship is what I’m aiming for, and I’ll probably qualify for other ones to pay for room/board and tuition if I don’t get the ROTC one. My parents probably won’t pay for a lot, maybe pick up room/board, but I’ll probably be finding a way to pay for most of it (and I want to; I don’t want them paying for all of it).</p>
<p>“Has a lack of money ever prevented you from being able to go to your dream school or something similar?”</p>
<p>Nah. My main problem is lack of awesomeness.</p>
<p>I will pay for college with:
<p>I’ll probably end up at Ohio State, but even that’s like $90,000. People act like state schools are so cheap and I guess it’s better than $300,000 but it’s still more money than I can understand.
My parents aren’t helping, plus they’re going to half-ass the FAFSA because they like to believe they make too much to get need-based aid even though they make less than $60,000. </p>
<p>I don’t know. I’d live like a total cheapskate no matter how much money I had. I don’t even know if I’d mind being in debt for a little while.</p>
<p>Drug money…</p>
<p>Hopefully, I’ll be upgrading my half-ride scholarship to Tulane to a full-ride. If not, my parents will cover a large amount, and then the leftover will be my own loans.</p>
<p>My parents, lol. I’m not getting any aid, so all 60k/year comes from them, unless I get some merit scholarship of some sort.</p>
<p>If I get into Berkeley, my dad will pay for me, probably.</p>
<p>If I want to go to a private, I’m going to have to use the money I earn from selling weed to middleschoolers.</p>
<p>Run a Brothel. Or go to Ross school of business and open up a Medical Marjuana store.</p>
<p>or do ROTC</p>
<p>If I stay in-state (even if I go to a private college) I automatically get $7500 a year due to a program called the Pittsburgh Promise. I will probably earn $2000-$3000 a summer which will also go to college. I will pay for what ever else remains after financial aid through loans and some other small scholarships.</p>
<p>HOPEFULLY with a Questbridge scholarship or Gates scholarship or Posse scholarship. If not those then with other smaller scholarship money. My mom will let me do anything BUT take out loans. I agree with her. I want to go to graduate school and the last thing I need going into graduate school are student loans.</p>
<p>If I have kids, hopefully I’m in the position where school tuition isn’t a problem.</p>
<p>My parents will be paying for everything.</p>
<p>Summer jobs, and financial aid… And loans :/</p>