GambateBingBangBOOM
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 Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 7:48 am Post subject: |
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| throwdownyourcrutches wrote: |
| fladude wrote: |
| But if you are at an expensive private school and are living off of student loans, then get out now!!! The schools tell you that the expensive education will pay off, but the reality is that for most people it does not. Not having a degree won't ruin your life, but massive student loans that you can't repay will. |
This is some of the best advice I have ever seen on this forum. What is going on in the US with student loans is immoral. If you don't have any, avoid them like the plague. Then you won't be one of those people coming on here asking about the best country to teach in to pay off your 70k student loan or ones that need to send home 600 or 700 per month.
If you have a thirst for adventure, go for it now. You can always finish school later. |
I entirely agree that unless you are in a business program (or maybe engineering or something) then the big name US schools aren't really going to get you much further than a regular level US school. I've known Canadians who transfered from a Canadian school to US Ivy league schools only to come back after one or two years because they were exactly the same as Canadian universities, but just much, much, MUCH more expensive.
But if you're already AT a big name US university and looking at the debt load and balking (because your major is in something like literature, musicology or liberal arts), then the solution is to transfer into a lower cost university (one that will transfer most if not all of your credits as directly applicable to a degree there) and still get a university degree, not to drop out altogether.
Plus, it looks a lot better to explain to employers that you changed schools because of the cost (or the program, if you find one that just suits you a lot better in your first couple of years at university that isn't even available at your first university-- this is actually what I did) then it would look if you just give up. A big, BIG chunk of the purpose of a degree (especially one in the humanities / liberal arts) is simply to show that you can stick with something long enough to see it through, and that you have been trained in how to think (like everybody else who has a degree in the humanities / liberal arts  ). |
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