<p>Though I have already posted this in the " Everything you wanted to know or should know about accounting" thread, I haven't gotten much of a response from people and am still really confused as to what I should do. So, I have decided to re-post on the general "Business Major" thread. </p>
<p>I am currently a rising Sophomore at a 4-year University(hoping to major in Accounting) and my ultimate goals are to get a CPA and to secure a job and an internship (during the summer) at a Big 4.
During my freshman year, I didn't really know what I wanted to major in and had a lot of personal issues going on at home and as a result, I ended the school year with an average GPA. However, during the summer, I decided to get myself together and spent a lot of time reflecting on the past year and on my life and decided that I was going to buckle down and complete my Bachelors in Accounting in 3 and a half years and then spend an additional year at X to get a Masters in Accounting.
And, though it would financially be hard on my parents to send me to X this year and the following years(almost paying full tuition), my dad told me that he would do anything that he possibly could (even if that meant taking out an immense amount of credit card debt) to allow me to continue at X if I really wanted to. I told my dad that I really wanted to attend and promised him that I would get my act together. However, my mother just came up to me a few hours ago asking me if attending X was really worth all that money, and she began explain to me how hard it would be on my parents financially if I were to attend this year.
After my mother and I started talking about our current family situation more in depth, it really hit me, and I started questioning if I was making the right choice by choosing to attend X this year.
Here are the my two options:
1) Attend a local community college for a year and attend X for the remainder of my education
- I really have no problem with attending a community college for a year and would be willing to do so if attending a cc will really help my parents out financially, but I am really scared that by choosing this route, it will hinder my chances of getting an internship/ job offering at a Big 4.
<strong><em>If I do decide to go the cc route, I plan on taking as many credits as I can handle, get an internship and have a part-time job on the side.
2) Just attend X University
- Though I would much rather prefer to attend X, I have several reasons why I am having such a hard time letting go of this option.
1. I have secured two leadership positions for this school year and I know that if I dont go to X this fall and transfer in during my junior year (with plans of graduating first semester of senior year), I am going to have a hard time securing any leadership positions in time.
*</em></strong>*Oh, and if I attend X for my Bachelors and Masters, I will be left with about $60,000+ in debt, which from what I have been reading, is not worth it. </p>
<p>I have been really conflicted as to how I should go about tackling this problem. Oh, and thank you all for taking the time to read my long post! :)</p>