<p>My oldest daughter has tried to find a job and has discovered that, unless students receive financial aid, they're not eligible for on campus work. She even applied for a job at a policy center that's affiliated with the university, got the job and, when they found out she wasn't on aid, was told that she could work on a volunteer basis but she couldn't be paid.</p>
<p>My second daughter, on the other hand, attends a different school and jobs seem quite plentiful...she has already secured two and is interviewing for a third. </p>
<p>In speaking with a couple other parents, one said her child's school was similar to my oldest's and the other parent said hers was like my middle daughter's.</p>
<p>So, it's almost time to start looking for colleges for my youngest and I'd like her to add this to her list of criteria...earning a paycheck is, of course, great but is only one of the valuable benefits and learning experiences one obtains through employment.</p>
<p>Other than asking at each indvidual school, does anyone know if this information is captured anywhere?</p>
<p>At both of my kids schools there were both work study, and non work study jobs available. The non work study jobs in their experience paid more per hour.</p>
<p>I have the same situation, oldest cannot work on campus, 2nd can, and I am now starting to look at schools with the 3rd. I often ask on tours or at info sessions if there is work available for non-work study students. Not sure how else to find out. And we did know that the school oldest is attending did not have jobs for non work study students, but it was her first choice school, and perfect for her in every other way.</p>
<p>This was the case back then at Cajun State. The end result was that it was a miracle that the university ran at all. Financial aid recipients were required to work X hours a week and many found themselves working in places that needed professional office workers… When you get called by Housing telling you that you owe them for this semester’s room and board, and you’re living off campus, you know you have a problem :)</p>
<p>I think this may be federal or state money specific, not school specific, because similar issues were reported by friends attending other public Louisiana schools…</p>
<p>Thanks for the replies…both my daughters are at private schools and the mom who comiserated with me was referring to Wesleyan (private). </p>
<p>I recall when I applied to graduate school way too long ago, I was accepted at NYU and GW (both private). I applied to be an RA in the dorms and got the job at both. When NYU found out I wasn’t on FA (after I’d been sent a letter of acceptance for the position), they said I was no longer eligible. GW, on the other hand, covered 100% of my tuition, room and board. Very sweet deal that I couldn’t pass up. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that this difference still exists.</p>
<p>Look for jobs on the college’s website. They should have them posted somewhere or other and that should give you a pretty good idea. For example, my school has myspartancareer.com which can be found I think in a link through the financial aid page. They break down jobs by whether or not you need WS or not to work there, but they would never ask if you’re on aid in general!</p>
<p>That’s odd to me that anyone without aid couldn’t get a job. I just hadn’t heard of that before. Then again, I really only know people at public Michigan colleges. I am on aid, but I have only had off-campus Work Study jobs and off-campus non-WS jobs. I’ve never had an on campus job, but they’re not hard to get even without aid. They are always looking for caf works, nude models (which pays REALLY well here!), and night recep people. For some reason, never enough people for those positions lol. </p>
<p>Good for you for making employment opportunities something to be looking at when selecting colleges :).</p>
<p>All three of my kids went to or are attending private colleges. My daughter worked at different jobs her whole four years at college, no work study. My middle child got a work study job freshman year but decided he couldn’t handle studies and work. There were both work study and non-work study jobs. When we started looking for #3 he knew he wanted to work on campus so that was part of the college search. When we got down to choosing, it was actually an offer of a campus job that pushed him over the edge. There were very few campus jobs (at least, that we could see on-line) at his college that were non work study so that was important. He has a great little job that he works about 6 - 8 hours a week doing something with computers.</p>
<p>Romanigypsyeyes, some things don’t change! Nude model was also a good paying non-work study job when I was at Michigan 30 years ago. My college boyfriend used to do it… But some things do change, it was very hard to get a GOOD campus job without WS back then. All the lab jobs, departments jobs, etc. were WS. I always figured that was part of being on a campus with tens of thousands of students – there was going to be more competition for jobs. But the comment about Wesleyan tells me that is not always the case.</p>
<p>My D1 had good jobs on the Dickinson campus, and only had WS one year when she was there (and the job she had was not dependent on work study, it was in the Writing Center and they were open to anyone the faculty recommended for the job). They also said that anyone (WS or not) could work in the dining halls freshman year (oh, boy!).</p>
<p>Collage: we found out about this the same way you did; both of my girls applied and were accepted for jobs on campus at their respective schools, only to have the offers reneged when TPTB found out that they were not receiving FA. Pretty common actually…</p>
My college boyfriend used to do it… But some things do change, it was very hard to get a GOOD campus job without WS back then. All the lab jobs, departments jobs, etc. were WS. I always figured that was part of being on a campus with tens of thousands of students – there was going to be more competition for jobs. But the comment about Wesleyan tells me that is not always the case.</p>