<p>I have the choice to choose to go to University of Arizona, Which most of my tuition is paid for by scholarships and the rest is taken care of by my parents, So I would graduate with 0 student debt, but U of A is known to be a party school. My other choice is to try to go to TCU where my parents would take care of the half the total cost and then my scholarship estimator would give me around 15k leaving me with having to take out 7500 a year in loans. What would you suppose I do? Go to U of A debt free that has an average business school or TCU that has a great one, Im planning on majoring in Finance. </p>
<p>First realize you cannot take out $7,500 in Government Student loans as a Freshman…Only $5,500 without doing a ‘Private’ loan which you really want to avoid if at all possible.</p>
<p>Secondarily, while I have no great draw to either school, realize that TCU has ‘partiers’ just as does every large school. Maybe not in the numbers of U of A, but they still have a large campus and you will run into students who run the gamut from late night crazies to library bound hermits. So does U of A. I think I’d be careful of making my decision based on the ‘party’ school reputation as that kind of goes with the territory of larger universities.</p>
<p>TCU has partiers, make no mistake.</p>
<p>Any other options? ASU Barrett Honors perhaps?</p>
<p>I wasn’t trying to say that I’m against partying, I just meant that a lot of people view ASU and U of A of JUST strictly party schools.</p>
<p>You know, instead of taking out 7500 in loans, you could work and save up 3-5 thousand dollars each year and thereby limit the amount you’d have to borrow. Anything under 5000/yr in loans is probably doable.</p>
<p>However, I’d go to Arizona and come out totally debt-free. It’ll mean so much when large chunks of those first post-graduation paychecks don’t have to go for student loans.</p>