<p>So you father is willing to take that debt on for you? I’m afraid you will really stick it to him. Ok a girl who went to Chapman (USC would do got a presidential scholarship but still her parents had to take loans. Her friend snagged a coveted but unpaid internship for a PR firm, entertainment industry Had to work many long hours and had to have a car, in LA you will need a car to get to an internship or job unless it is on campus. The reward was to be placed, upon graduation, at a major talent agency. This is a place that gets stacks and stacks of resumes for these entry level $12 per hour jobs from Yale and Emerson etc. Now the perk of this job is not the celebrity interactions, or the presentable LA clothes you have to buy on you own dime, or the apartment you are supposed to rent in mid city on $12, it is that you get to get a friend a job. So the friend got a job. Now these girls couldn’t take these jobs without having friends and family to buy their cars for them and their clothes and I’m sure helping with the rent. The parents are paying the loans, the grads couldn’t pay any loans. I think it is two years later, placing another friend in a job and maybe a promotion. Oh yeah, one couldn’t get promoted to assistant to an agent because she did too good a job filing papers-- have to pay your dues. Now one has snagged a job she wanted with a production company and things are looking solid. The other is unhappy. This atmosphere is not for everyone. I’m just hoping she is going to click with someone who wants her not type A personality.</p>
<p>So yeah, 4 colleges isn’t enough. Apply more widely. If you don’t apply instate just to have that rock solid backup then I’m gonna have to come through the internet and ground you. Ask your GC for some fee waivers.</p>