<p>Okay so I'm an out of stater and if I'm lucky enough to get in, I'm going to Berkeley.</p>
<p>Now, about the whole money issue...
How do they expect OOS to pay the insane prices?
I mean, 45k a year with little-to-no aid? Ugh so bad.</p>
<p>How are the rest of you planning on financing everything?
I'm trying to pile on the AP credit (so i'll have 45 units) and working the rules to gain residency :/</p>
<p>Well, think of it this way...
I heard that the UC's are really looking into accepting more OOS since they pay more, therefore, it increases your chances of being accepted in the first place...that's better than rejection right? :P (i'll take that!, haha).
Anyways, i'm planning on working full-time during the summer to pay for food throughout the year.</p>
<p>Oh yeah, summer internships can totally help =]
But at $15/hr, 40 hour weeks, that only earns <10K</p>
<p>But what about the tuition? 45k-10k = OMGSOMUCH
Loans seem to be everyones best friend :/</p>
<p>^ Scholarships are beautiful, free things, my friend. I'm a resident and doing pretty much a scholarship per week!</p>
<p>How are you finding any good scholarships? There's hardly any on fastweb that most people have a shot at and there's not really any other good sources.</p>
<p>I wish the hunt wasn't so hard.</p>
<p>haha yeah scholarship hunting blows. today i got a phone call from one of those search engine places and i felt bad since technically i solicited them.. they told me after a brief chat that one school they had fit my criteria and that it was an online school called aop or some weird acronym </p>
<p>lol.</p>
<p>My school has a whole list from my area. And there's this big program called Assist-A-Grad that allows you to apply for 3 scholarships at once. Is nice.</p>
<p>Yeah, this is the same dilemma a bunch of us are dealing with at the moment. I'm currently hunting down all of my resources in order to find obscure local scholarships, along with applying for as many I can find on the internet. Be creative in your key words because there are tons of sites online, even if it takes forever to weed through them, it'll be worth your time. Look at it this way. </p>
<p>At even $10/hr (lucrative for a part time job), working 30 hrs/wk this summer (if you can get that many hours), that's only $1200/month. Putting the same 120 hours into scholarship searching and essays gives you great odds of finding $1200 at the very least, if not more. Yes, it is a lot of work, but the more you work, the more money you will find, and it will far exceed anything you get from a part time job this summer.</p>
<p>@ compactrunner</p>
<p>You're right, but even if I get 2k from scholarships, 30k from a multi-summer-internship, and a year worth of AP, it brings it down from 180k, there's still 100k to come up with in order to graduate.</p>
<p>Paying that much for a undergrad degree is insane enough on its own, but even with every avenue explored, 100k? Are we all really going to take out that much in loans? I mean, I kinda expected this, but I don't want to be alone =]</p>
<p>Right, which is a lot of money. I guess I've put myself in a bit of a bad position, because I likely won't hear back from most, if any, of these scholarships before May 1, which is when I need to make a decision. I've also been accepted (in state) to the University of Washington, which is a pretty good school but I'd likely only have to go <20k in debt, which is incredible compared to >100k for Berkeley. I've also been accepted to Michigan, which is almost comparable to Berkeley (except it loses prestige the further west you go), which notifies of merit scholarships april 15, so hopefully something materializes there. </p>
<p>In a way, the best case might be getting rejected from Berkeley so I don't end up a victim of my own naivety. It's important to remember that 100k in loans will likely approach 200k after interest, if paid off in 12-15 years. I think I'd feel more comfortable if I knew what sort of expenses I'll have after college, so I can see how quickly I'd be able to pay off the debt before my expenses begin to rise (family, etc).</p>
<p>Same situation here!</p>
<p>I got a full ride at the University of Maryland, College Park, yet I'm still yearning for Berkeley. Sure there's little prestige at UMCP, but is the 100k really worth the boost?
I'm thinking so, because I want a job in silicon valley, so getting the local connections would be worth it.</p>
<p>I'm planning to also do grad school, so I can delay paying back the student loans. :]
If only I got Regent's from Berkeley! Everything would be solved.</p>
<p>if i'll be attending berkeley(if i get in,i will), i will accept a local scholarship, which includes 32k stipend and covers 4 yr tuition, along with some other benefits, but the company wants me to come back and work for them. i guess they're just desparate for skillful engineers.</p>
<p>I'm going to apply for in-state tuition, since my dad lives in California and the UC's have a OOS tuition exemption for children of California residents.</p>
<p>HEY LET’S REVIVE THIS!</p>
<p>my situation is still the same, major suckage.
and i’m back to figuring out how to pay for it.
help me?!?!?!?!?</p>
<p>i’m in the same situation as well. i’m going to be 200K in debt if i go to berkeley. i want to go, and i should be able to since i got in, but the money worries me. does anyone know if there’s still that loophole in residency of california about being born in cali. i was born in cali, but live in florida. i just can’t decide how much in debt i want to be. UW accepted me as a junior, so i’ll be 80K in debt if i go there… or 120K if i spend an extra year there to study abroad. RPI gave me 88K so i’ll be 120K in debt. UMN gave me 16K so i’ll be 80K in debt, but they also accepted all of my CC credits from my AA degree. Jacobs (in Germany) is giving me 36K so i’ll be 75K in debt. Florida Tech is giving me 120K, so i’ll be 60K in debt… but i don’t want to stay in FL. ughhh, i hate money! Berkeley is the most presitigious out of all the universities, but i don’t know if i should pay that much for UG education. help!</p>
<p>my recommendation is go to cal day and find out if you can get in-state tuition after a year, or maybe two.
no ifs. if they tell you you wont be able to get it, then you have to think long and hard about whether it means enough to you.
if they say you can get the outofstate costs wiped out after a year, i have a friend who is currently an outofstate junior at cal, and she lives in a coop that costs 3K for housing and food per semester.</p>
<p>find out about the instate tuition. it is HUGE. you need a firm yes before you can count on this, but if you can get it after a year and live in a cheap coop (this could be really ghetto, im not making any promises =/) you could save yourself more than 85K</p>
<p>for my part, i got a good deal from cornell that could mean zero debt, i’d only need to pay about 15K per year (this might go up when my sister graduates college) and ive got about 30K in my own personal savings, my parents have a college fund upwards of 15K and i plan to work</p>
<p>all i can say is get a commitment on the in state tuition… once you have this info your options will be more clear</p>
<p>good luck, i know you will make the right choice</p>
<p>killthefifi: same boat as you. loans and then med school!! haha</p>
<p>I’ll revive this thread again and jump in the same boat 
Time’s running out though.</p>
<p>anyone else?!?!?!?!</p>
<p>i already committed, but unless i can significantly reduce the cost after a year, i’ll have to <em>gasp</em> drop out. =[</p>