<p>Why is the cost of attendance $51,416 for the 4-yr co-op students and $44,516 for the 5-yr students?</p>
<p>I apologize for asking this here and in another post. My mother is driving me crazy trying to get specific answers.</p>
<p>The whole quarter system (4 10 week blocks) is confusing.</p>
<p>If you're taking new claases every quarter, the cost of books must be high.</p>
<p>I think the more co-op you have the less time you are spending in an actual drexel classroom learning.
Not to mention in a co-op you are working for companies through drexel so it is to their advantage too.</p>
<p>That is the only sensible reason i could see.
Not based on anything I read.</p>
<p>Drexel takes their time when it comes to replying to emails so if no one else knows the answer you should call them directly and ask.</p>
<p>I am going to try and find out.</p>
<p>Its cheaper per year because you're basically just spreading the same number of credits out over an extra term of classes. It wouldn't make sense for a 5 year to pay the same price as a 4 year who are taking more classes per/year.</p>
<pre><code>You have basically the same amount of class time in the end. On 4 year program you get 1 co-op. On 5 year program you get 3 co-ops.
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<p>Quarter system isn't really that confusing. Freshman year its more of a "tri-mester" because you don't have co-op...so you have 3 - 10 week terms of classes, and then a term of summer break. After freshman year you get in a rhythm depending on your co-op cycle. You would either do 2 - 10 week terms of co-op followed by 2 - 10 week terms of classes, or you would do 2 10 week terms of classes and then 2 10 week terms of co-op. They assign you your cycle freshman year. </p>
<p>It just alternates...
Co-op classes co-op classes co-op classes or
Classes co-op classes co-op classes co-op ...etc</p>
<p>The books are the same as any university... again, you are taking the same number of classes with co-op. You have 3 terms of class your freshman year, 2 your sophmore, 2 your prejunior etc etc.</p>
<p>Although, I usually don't even buy the books. Especially freshman year. Most classes rarely use them, and when they do its easy to bum them off a friend cause pretty much everyone takes the same classes. The library usually has a couple coppies on hand as well. If you do need to buy one, I suggest sharing with a friend and buying online instead of the drexel book store. A trick for saving money is to use the previous years edition...they usually don't even change anything except a few words here or there. The textbook industry is the biggest scam in college....don't let them pull you in.</p>
<p>My advice is to hold-off on buying any books until after the first week of class when you can see if you actually need it. I saved a good $500-600 dollars last year on books as opposed to some of my peers and never really had an issue.</p>