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snoodog  ·  2907 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Need help choosing a college

Do UF its debt free it's a no brainier. No undergraduate degree is worth the extra debt cost unless the major you want to study is either unaccredited or unavailable at UF. No one really cares where you got your degree if you work hard and do internships that's what matters most.

At the other place you are probably going to end up with 20-120k in debt and that's a huge burden to carry when you graduate. You could probably travel for a year or more on that kind of money or be years ahead on your house down payment.

Big schools kind of suck at teaching, but the plus side of that is that you learn to be self reliant which is way more important in the real world. There are also often more opportunities for internships (but also more competition).

There is also a lot of value in being able to date new people without baggage of previous failures coming back. My friends in small schools always complained that everyone knew of their sexual exploits and failures. I never had that problem in a big school and boy let me tell you there was an abnormal large amount of failures.

Did I mention debt free? It's gonna give you a huge leg up on your peers after you graduate too. You'll be able to take more risks with your first job and have more chances to peruse that dream job because you won't have that monthly student loan payment hanging over your head.