<p>I really want to join my university's club equestrian team when I head to school this fall. However, the cost is $780 for the year plus $65 a week for lessons :(. They don't offer scholarships and they say scholarship money can't be used to cover up the costs. How in the world do I pay for this kind of stuff at these expensive rates? Same goes for basketball and football games, it all costs extra $$$ that is not included in your financial offer. How do you enjoy these things if you can't pay for them?</p>
<p>A job?</p>
<p>Who told you being an equestrian was cheap?</p>
<p>all clubs or sports cause money in college. Getting a job would be a start with a small job may help you cover the cost. Otherwise pick which one(s) to take out since you are on a tight budget.</p>
<p>As a parent, I’m curious about costs myself. S2 is looking at a club lacrosse team at his college in the fall.</p>
<p>@teenbodybuilder I was in equestrian for many years, but it didn’t cost my family much if anything for it because my regional center paid for it (I have autism). </p>
<p>@babyblue98 As a broadcast journalist, I’ll have plenty of internships. If they will pay me or not is another story. BTW, I have had several jobs already, but my parents will not allow me to spend anything as all the money will go towards college. I have enough scholarships to possibly pay such a high price tag since USC gave me a tremendous financial offer. But they said scholarship money, regardless of what it specifies it will pay for, can’t be used.</p>
<p>If you have enough scholarships and financial aid to pay for college, then why can’t you use the money you earn through your own part-time job to pay for the equestrian team? If you don’t have enough money to pay for college, then I’m sorry, but we all have to make sacrifices. That’s just life. If you aren’t willing to or able to work more hours to pay for the extras that you want to do, then you don’t get to do it.</p>
<p>How in the world can you pay for these things? You get a job. If your parents aren’t okay with that, then that’s a separate issue between you and your parents. If you’re already working to contribute to your college expenses, then you need to work more hours. If you can’t, then you have to give something up. You can’t expect people to just keep handing out money to you so that you can go to basketball and football teams and participate on the equestrian team.</p>
<p>Well, usually football and basketball games are free to college students at their respective colleges. It seems like a given from any college student that they can enjoy these things. You can tell from my user name that I can’t live without sports, whether it be reporting them (my career), playing them (my exercise and fun), or watching them professionally (my favorite hobby). Btw, @baktrax I have thought about that, but I only have $850 about in my account that is not scholarship money. I need about $2500 for equestrian and an additional club sport, or season tickets to all sporting events and a little bit cheaper club sport. I will be only a freshman this fall and I just finished my third job about three weeks ago (sports writing for local paper).</p>
<p>I said football and basketball games because that was in your post, and I was only repeating what you said you needed the money before.</p>
<p>And don’t be ridiculous. Everyone can live without sports. I’m not saying you should or you have to or that’s you’re only option. But I am saying that part of being an adult is making choices. You can’t have everything, unless you’re independently wealthy or you have someone willing to foot the bill. You make it sound like it’s such a crazy idea that anyone can do these fun things without a scholarship or it being included in your financial offer. But it’s not. Get a job and work for these extra things that you want to do and don’t have the money for. If you’re not willing or able to do that, then you have to give something up. $780/year + $65/week really isn’t that much. A part time job during the school year or a full time job over the summer should be more than enough to pay for that.</p>
<p>It is not about not wanting a part time job and putting forth work. All of my past jobs have been on limited hours (80 a year) and I have been paid $8/hour while in high school. I would have done plenty more because each job was related to my career field and I loved it, but I couldn’t. If I could get a job, then I would take it (depending on the job itself). It is hard to do that when you are taking 15 or 16 credits and want to be a part of two or three club sports/other organizations, plus my work with internships and the various school media… I have no desire for greek life.</p>
<p>You have to get the money yourself or from family. That’ s the difference between club and NCAA sports most of the time.</p>
<p>Now my son was in a Club sport that was well funded and when he became an officer,got it even better funded. Because the school was on a guilt trip for getting rid of football, they gave a lot of money to the club sports those first years thereafter, at least that’s my opinion. But in most club sports, you pay. Just like if you want to join the local equestrian club not associated with the college you pay. If you want to join US Swimming, you pay. The same with any independent group. Why should the college be paying? As a club sport, the teams get some discounts and privileges in using college facilities and resources as it is. Equestrian is not a sport for those who are tight on cash. You ought to know that. Either you are good enough to find a sponsor or it’s your baby, your hobby, you pay for it.</p>
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<p>Again, it’s about choosing what’s more important to you. If you can’t handle (or don’t want to handle) taking 15 or 16 credits AND having a job AND playing a sport, then something has to give. You may have to choose what’s most important to you and find ways to make it happen. If you have so much else going on that you can’t handle a part time job, then perhaps, it’s better that you don’t do a sport in addition to everything else, at least not for your first year.</p>
<p>And you can find a job that offers more hours than 80/year and you’ll likely be able to find a job that pays more than $8/hour. Whether it’s a job that you want to do or not depends on you, but there are jobs out there, especially on a college campus. And I’m not just talking about jobs in your field–I’m talking about any old job that will help you make ends meet. You may have to work at hours you don’t want to, you may have to do work that you don’t want to, but the benefit is that you can play the sport that you want. But perhaps, you don’t think it’s worth it, and that’s fine too. But don’t act like you can’t find a job that pays enough to support that and that this would be impossible to do without a scholarship. Many students work while in school to support themselves and/or to pay for the “extras” that they want to do. It’s not an unusual situation. Be grateful for the scholarships that you do have, and put in some work if you want extra money.</p>
<p>Sadly, this is your introduction to adulthood–good things don’t come free.</p>
<p>But you seem to be painting everything black and white.</p>
<p>Would your parents be willing to help you with the cost of tickets to athletic events on your campus? Or could you get a job that would give you access to sporting events on campus? For example, selling concessions in the stands, or writing for the school paper? Something in the broadcast booth?</p>
<p>Talk to the disabilities office on campus. Could they help you get access to the equestrian team or sporting events? you should be registering with them in any event.</p>
<p>@boysx3 Yes, I have registered with DPS and all of my accommodations, even for housing, have been approved and been acted upon. I will see if the regional center in the USC area will offer to pay for the club sports. Every regional center is different. My old regional center in my past residence paid my horse lessons in full, but my current one would never do anything like that. Maybe I will get lucky, but the regional center paying for those things will definitely be something I will ask about when I get set up down in LA. I plan to work with school media as part of my major, my career, and for fun (I love my job field), so yeah maybe I will get in free that way anyway for sporting events. My parents may help pay for some if I have enough scholarship funds that will cover part of their EFC (our EFC is $3900, but my parents are willing to shelve out $6000 per year because we are making extra income from renting our old house), but I’m not positive about that. If I have time for a part time job after my academics, internships/school media jobs, and club sports, then yeah I will try to get a job. Nice suggestions by the way :).</p>
<p>My daughters are going to schools where the student ID card gets them into sporting events, including Div 1 football and basketball. If something isn’t free, usually the ID will get them a discount.</p>
<p>Way back when I was a student, there was a charge for the athletic events at my school (also Div 1) but you could buy a ticket for the football games for about $40 for the season (8 home games) and I think basketball games were about $5 each. I’m sure they’d be more now, but min wage was about $2 back then too. But we had an organization that put on events at school, and I volunteered for them so that got me into movies, concerts, speakers, etc. without charge. Not free as I volunteered my time on other events, but I did get to go to many things I couldn’t have afforded a ticket to.</p>
<p>I think you are trying to do too much, so therefore you don’t have time to work. Getting the things you want requires you to work, and even then you have to pick which ones you want to spend your hard earned money on. You don’t get to just intern without salary if you don’t have the time and money to do that. There are a lot of things I want to do, that are good for me, that would make me a better person or help humanity, but I just can’t afford them. I have to pick which things I have the time and money for. You need to re-order your needs. You need to go to school, need to work to earn a little money, THEN you ‘need’ to watch sports or participate in them. I understand you might really NEED to do one or two to keep you happy and sane, but you just can’t do them all. Pick.</p>
<p>At my niece’s school, she gets a credit for playing a club sport, so it costs money but she does get a benefit.</p>