<p>Any of you paying full college tuition as an international when you are not rich or possibly even fairly poor?</p>
<p>Well, I am. I'm just wondering how many others are</p>
<p>Just curious: how are you paying for it?</p>
<p>Loans. No scholarship.</p>
<p>Why did you do that? Also, what are you attending now?</p>
<p>Funding Harvey Mudd with loans only sounds like a huge burden! Are you concerned about the impact the loans will have on your life after college? How are you planning to repay them?</p>
<p>Do you have government loans or scholarships available from your home country? Or do you have a legal sponsor in the US?</p>
<p>I’m sorry but this sounds like a really bad idea… funding a whole US degree is going to be like $150,000+ in loans. That’s a HUGE burden on your family. If you were applying as an independent student and were willing to take that risk yourself (maybe that is the case, I don’t know) then I guess fair enough but I just feel like there has to be a better option.</p>
<p>hey. I’m more than willing to talk about why I would do that with a different thread, but please don’t ruin this thread.</p>
<p>Judging from the responses so far, it seems that you are the only “fairly poor” international student who decided to take on the entire cost of college him/herself. So we might as well use this thread to discuss it :)</p>
<p>wow… really. really you want to go that way? way to completely ignore me. fine. I’ll play your way then.</p>
<p>you wanna know why i’m willing to sacrifice? because I don’t want the comfortable normal life that everyone else is thinking about. you want to sacrifice education for comfort? fine. Me? I don’t. I’m willing to sacrifice everything for education cuz I have a personal goal. If you really had a goal, you would sacrifice too.</p>
<p>and about your comment. There’s already bunch of people I know in person who are willing to and are doing what I am doing. Just don’t assume your thought is the right one</p>
<p>Hey, the OP has his own life and situations that you all have absolutely no knowledge of. This may be his best decision in life, no matter how bad it sounds to you. His life is different!</p>
<p>Just so you know, your monthly payment over 30 years will be close to $2000. To afford that, you’ll need a job that gets you some $100’000 a year. It is nearly impossible to get a job like that right after college even if you graduate with distinction.</p>
<p>maruhan2, I did not mean to imply that no one is funding college with loans. I meant that no other currently active poster on this forum seems to be in that situation, just to point out that this thread would probably not serve the purpose you intended it to have. I apologize if any of my posts offended you. </p>
<p>melin720 is right, I do not know anything about your life. Maybe this is a good decision for you. I am just having a hard time imagining why anyone would want to take out huge loans to pay for Harvey Mudd when they could get the same education for half the price at another college. I agree with you that education is important, but I do not see the importance of an education from Harvey Mudd.</p>
<p>I hope everything works out for you!</p>
<p>“I am just having a hard time imagining why anyone would want to take out huge loans to pay for Harvey Mudd when they could get the same education for half the price at another college. I agree with you that education is important, but I do not see the importance of an education from Harvey Mudd.”</p>
<p>That is the thing. You cannot get the same education at another college.
If you knew a Mudder you’d know that.</p>
<p>The OP certainly has the guts to take out such a huge loan. But, I hope that he has thought of life beyond college. In today’s world getting a graduate degree (MBA, M.Sc, M.Tech, Law) is a must and even that is going to cost a lot of $$. Even getting a job in the states is next to impossible for internationals. But, if he definitely has a solid plan for life after college, then maybe it is worth it. </p>
<p>@Maruhan- you could have applied for aid, that would reduce your loan burden. But, getting into Mudd would be more difficult. On the other hand, there many good tech schools in the US(RPI, WPI, UIUC, U Rochester, RIT etc) which award need-based and merit-based aid to international students. If you had the stats, you could have easily gone to one of these.</p>
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You are a Mudder, aren’t you? Then please enlighten me: what makes an education from Harvey Mudd superior to an education from any other college?</p>
<p>Even Caltech and MIT are cheaper than Harvey Mudd, and they also have a lot more financial aid for international students. And then there are the public universities with award-winning engineering departments: Georgia Tech, UIUC, etc.</p>
<p>Rocket said Mudd’s was different, not superior. ;)</p>
<p>You guys still want to stay on this subject huh?</p>
<p>I wouldn’t have applied for financial aid for MIT and Caltech anyways, and state schools are just not what I want.</p>
<p>You have every right to attend your dream college and finance it with loans. Just please don’t pretend that expensive private universities are the only ones where you can get a good education. Your previous post was passing judgement on anyone who chooses to attend an affordable university. </p>
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<p>One big difference between public and private universities is that private universities spend a lot more money on marketing and maintaining an exclusive image. They have to justify why they can charge twice as much for an education as their public counterparts. Certainly not all public universities are on par with their private counterparts, but there is a good number of excellent public universities.</p>