<p>Hey guys, I was wondering, I know this is a really silly question but my my parents want to know since they have witnessed this happen at their own college. They basically want me to find ways to make money at ND since my financial aid package was really low. Yet, they dont want me to do any sort of labor but rather obtain my money through academic means. </p>
<p>See, back in their college days, they said they have met undergrads who have worked with professors- research, grading papers,-- and in return, the professors have paid their tuition in several classes. Thus, that basically goes to say that they have saved like $20,000 yearly. And the best part is that, this is not money out of the professor's income or from the undergrad unviersity, but rather it was money from of an outside institute/research facility that the professor was awarded to conduct his research in the first place. </p>
<p>Thus, my question is, as a premed at Notre Dame, if I work with a professor for example in research projects say sometime during soph or junior year (I know it is very hard to qualify), would professors understand my financial plight and sort of pay the tuition fee of say two of my science courses, especially if the research project is successful and gets published..?? I know my question was one of those highly unlikely questions, but I am not sure if you have known of any sort of these rare occurences..</p>
<p>But basically, can someone give me additional--ACADEMIC ways---on making money at ND?</p>
<p>I don't know, I think that may be tough. Most of the jobs you are talking about are filled by graduate students sorry to say and I haven't heard of it with undergrads. I am TAing a class next semester and I am just making the standard 7 bucks an hour they pay undergrads for work. There are plenty of jobs that you can do on campus, even academic ones, and earn some money back but I don't know of any at least where the professor pays, but it doesn't mean you couldn't ask.</p>
<p>Ummm let's see if you broke tuition down into its composite categories, you'd have such groups as - tuition, room an board, etc...Now the statement for tuition per semester is just listed as a lump sum. It makes no difference if you do 12 credits, 18 credits or you overload, you pay the same value for tuition per semester. The burden for tuition is on you however. I don't know what college's to which you are referring, but I've never heard of any school where Prof's use their grant/lab funds to cover the cost of an undergraduates education. Considering there is no pay per credit hour system up here, I don't see how you could expect a professor to calculate what he would cover. even though NO PROFESSORS do that here. </p>
<p>So what does that leave you with: the University's financial aid package; you take out student loans and go into debt; your parents take out loans to pay for you and they go in debt; you do work study here on campus to help a little bit; you consider another school....</p>
<p>I'll be honest I've been on work study every semester I was up here. If you're told you qualify for say 2K in work study. What this means is that say your tuition is 10K, you still pay 10K by the time payment is due. With work study you have a chance to earn money, so if you work enough, theoretically you might only end up with an out of pocket expense of 8K for the semester...</p>
<p>Irish is right, I know of many students who work as TA's or for a dept doing stocking in the chem labs/bio labs. Usually they make about $7 an hour. That's pretty good considering you make $6.35 for working the Dining Hall...Don't expect to get paid if a professor has you doing research for him/her though, since you can get credit on your transcript, that normally isn't paid.</p>
<p>If cost is too prohibitive, then maybe you ought to look elsewhere. ND is great, but if you have attractive packages elsewhere or if it is too big of a financial hardship to come here, I would consider taking a really hard look and decide if it is worth it or not.</p>
<p>If anyone knows anything that I said to be wrong, please correct it, but I'm pretty confident that I didn't miss anything...</p>
<p>It is possible to gross a decent wage off of work study. I know for a time in there I worked between 30-40 hours per week, and since I was doing what was considered a "skilled" and "technical" position my pay was significantly higher than 7 an hour. This is not the norm, nor is it the norm for student workers to exceed 20 hours a week. Most jobs on-campus won't let you; why I got away with it, is a series of events required I be allowed to...</p>
<p>I would caution any Freshman from doing what I do though. I didn't work those hours my freshman year, that came later in my college career. It is hard to work more than 20 hours a week and juggle a full course load. Plus for Freshamn you don't want to miss out on time to meet and mingle....that and a lot of Freshman don't always come into college prepared for the workload (or able to handle the freedom, but that's another subject)...</p>