<p>My top choices of schools are LMU and Chapman. I have to decide within the next three days, and though I have done a great amount of thinking and planning already, I need some more opinions.
I received aid and scholarships from both, but my parents only have enough to cover one year's costs. After I graduate, I do not plan on going to graduate school, but want to go into psychology. Either way I will have a serious amount of debt and loans afterward, but if I go to Chapman I will have around 20,000 dollars less debt than if I went to LMU. I need to know if it is worth it to be even more deeply in debt if I choose to go to LMU which I have started to like better than Chapman. If anyone knows a lot about the two schools and the positives and negatives about both it would be VERY helpful.
My other option would to stay in town, and I have always wanted to go away for college to a better school that I have worked hard to be accepted to.
Thank you!</p>
<p>Nicole, I know it may be difficult for you to hear this when your heart is set on going away for college. But could you consider staying in town for CC for a year or two, then transferring to one of the two privates? It would save a lot of money.</p>
<p>I’m not an expert on this, but don’t most psychologists have a master’s? Even though you worked hard to be accepted to these schools, and deserve congrats for that, now you’re going to work even harder to set yourself up for success in your adult life. Do you want to start out with alot of debt that will hang over you for years? Of course not! Get in the habit now of making life work within your budget.</p>
<p>My kids have two cousins who attend Chapman, one was a psych major, got an internship and is graduating this spring with a job offer from that internship. She will probably go back to grad school for a masters for school psych.</p>
<p>I do not know the details except that the family has been very happy with their Chapman experience, enough to send another kid there :)</p>
<p>I agree that there is not a lot you can do in psych without a grad degree so you may well change your mind. $20K of debt is a big difference.</p>