Student Loans

So yeah, I'm going to be going back to school in the fall and I'm very reluctant about going into so much debt. The school I'm going to be going to is about $15,000 a year for tuition, and well, that scares me. That means if I pay $5000 a year out of my pocket and put the rest on loans, I'll come out oweing around $40,000!

I guess my questions are: how long have you been in school, how much do you owe, and how do you plan on paying it off?

Thanks!

Gonna be a freshman in college later this year, tuition and everything else comes to $45,000 per year... and I won't owe anything. It's all paid for, and then some. :)Dark__Link

I took debt into consideration, so I didn't take out any loans, making me one of the very few graduates that year being debt free. :)yian

Gonna be a freshman in college later this year, tuition and everything else comes to $45,000 per year... and I won't owe anything. It's all paid for, and then some. :)Dark__Link

now how is that?

Gonna be a freshman in college later this year, tuition and everything else comes to $45,000 per year... and I won't owe anything. It's all paid for, and then some. :)Dark__Link

[QUOTE="Dark__Link"]Gonna be a freshman in college later this year, tuition and everything else comes to $45,000 per year... and I won't owe anything. It's all paid for, and then some. :)Magna_Man109

now how is that?

Hefty merit scholarship plus money from grandparents. :)

Freemasons give out nice scholarship as well. Time to visit the local Masonic Temple!yian

atleast you'll get to hear the story of the treasure of the Knight's Templar...maybe they can take some of that to give you for tuition

Some jobs pay for your college education.

Here, if you work as a security guard for some of the buildings downtown, they pay for your tuition, room, board, books, etc.

There's always cheaper alternitives, and you seem to be forgetting about living costs added onto your education.

Commute from home - most areas have a 4 year college pretty close, or you could even do community college if you don't mind missing out on the freshman college experience.

Travel abroad - I started doing this partway into college pretty much just for a vaction since I was poor, but everything college related was paid for (food, housing, classes). I was surprised that there were alot of international schools that had dirt cheap tuition which you can get transfered to any other school (well as well as you can transfer credits from any other college).