The correct thing to do, of course, is to spend a couple of years at community college and then transfer to a state school. If you work your ass off -- truly -- you've got good odds of getting aid to a fairly prestigious grad school. Then you're mostly set.
The wrong thing to do is go to UPenn for undergrad when undergrad no longer matters much and take out a bunch of loans. Oh well.
- undergrad no longer matters much
Undergrad still matters, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics agrees with me.
- The correct thing to do, of course, is to spend a couple of years at community college and then transfer to a state school. If you work your ass off -- truly -- you've got good odds of getting aid to a fairly prestigious grad school. Then you're mostly set.
I did this and am graduating in two weeks with my bachelor's degree, have no student loans, and I will be taking a year off. Working on the prestigious grad school part. 3.7 GPA, 85th percentile + GREs, good LORs, a pub, and I've got an in at Stanford...
Was wondering just how expensive UPenn is. Now I remember why I don't think about how much a year of college costs me, let alone 5. Articles like these are great, and it's good to have more exposure to this problem but they're starting to give me a headache with the lack of the action...as far as I'm aware anyway.
Some more info since I'm interested right now. The following is for full-time students enrolled in between 12 and 18 credit hours. It's not terribly pertinent to this article but I was curious.
Cost per credit hour (in-state) at UPenn: $1,296
Cost per credit hour (in-state) at my college: $315
Cost per credit hour (in-state) at Bunker Hill Community College: $141