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buffalo
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Cost of tuition is going up while value of the diploma is going down. So we will just keep being duped.
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Augustine
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Why then would you want others to pay that for you?
Well, my parents couldn’t afford paying for college, so I bust my brains off and got through college wihout paying a dime.
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Augustine
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Err… Baylor is not UT. UT tuition costs about $8000 per year…
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Lisa_N
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What is a Survery?
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Lisa_N
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TarAshley there are ways to get through school without wealthy parents. It might take longer. You might have to work and take classes at night. I didn’t have rich parents and although they would have paid for my education if they could have, they just didn’t have funds.
There are loans, grants, scholarships. I did get a scholarship but made “too much” money for a low interest loan.I was making slightly above minimum wage! But I did get a different kind of loan and was able to pay for school.
So be creative and good luck. I still maintain that it is a very worthwhile experience
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There are loans, grants, scholarships. I did get a scholarship but made “too much” money for a low interest loan.I was making slightly above minimum wage! But I did get a different kind of loan and was able to pay for school.
So be creative and good luck. I still maintain that it is a very worthwhile experience
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TarAshly
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im not asking anyone to pay for me, i believe however there should be a cap on tuition costs and that tax money and lottery money could be of use to bringing down tuition. i got scholarships, i have already spent them. i refused one that i got on account of my heritage. i dont believe in having anything handed to me. the ones i got i got because i worked hard in school and was extremely active in the volunteer work of my community. my parents taught me to work hard for what i want not have it handed to me like some kids.
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Lisa N:
thats how i do it Lisa and i admire others who do it that way. it just feels better to me to earn something rather than have it handed to you. i work 40 hours a week and go to school at night. i couldnt go this semester because of medical bills but will be going back in the spring (God willing) i tried for loans but my parents made to much for that but not enough to pay for me to go. and now my soon to be husband makes to much for me to get a loan but again not enough to send me. its a big bad trap of a cycle.
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TarAshly
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i never said Baylor was UT. where on earth did you get that from? my brother went to UT i know how much UT costs. i was simply stating the average tuition costs in Texas.
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Penny_Plain
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Lisa N:
It’s like a survey, but more emphatic.
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Augustine
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Oh, right, tax-money falls from the sky…
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Augustine
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Your notion of average is confusing… Regardless, that in TX is among the lowest in the country.
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jess7396
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and hes being optimistic. Books, food, gas,lab fees and supplies, the list goes on honey. i mean thats only $43,200 thats no where near enough. at Baylor its about 30,000 a year.All of this said, I wonder how we will ever afford it all. Our financial advisor said you need to put away $50/week/child from birth to afford 4 years at state school.
Well, the theory is based on a 529 plan, an investment for college funds, not a simple savings account
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chicago
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Precisely! And just the reason why I think that it ought to be brought back. I tend to believe that people learn more at the hands of an experienced mentor. I don’t argue against college as one option, but I think that there are other legitimate routes to the same end.
I also think that more use ought to be made of the apprenticeship route to the priesthood. It is allowed under canon law, afterall.
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asquared
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you are laboring under the delusion that because we worked our as**s off to pay for our own college educations we are wealty. We started of with $26 in our pocket on our wedding day. We earned everything we ever got, including education. We are properly grateful to God for his gifts that made this possible. (we each have two masters degrees and earned every dime ourselves with scholarship, loan and work, were married in our sophomore year, had 3 kids during that time, zero support from parents or anybody else.) my kids also worked to earn scholarships and grants, and to pay the rest through private bank loans and “daddy student loan program”, just paid off last loan 10 yrs after graduation, while raising families. They got no free ride from anybody, so why should you? YOu don’t want to pay $30gs for a private school, then go public like I did and qwitcher bitchin
repeat, education is not a right, it is a privilege. It is not a privilege for the wealthy, it is a privilege for someone who sees value beyond the financial cost and the financial benefit to the value of intellectual growth, connection with the great minds of history, debate and discourse, logical reasoning, and the other benefits of real education.
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La_Chiara
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TarAshly–What are you studying in college? Do you use capital letters, punctuation, and proper spelling in your written assignments? I would think that it would be useful to practice such things at all times, so that you always write correctly and don’t slip up inadvertently when it counts.
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nolai
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I think any higer education is very important. It’s very important to be able to support yourself, in and outside a marriage. I would want to be able to support my family if somthing happend to my husband, and education is the first step.
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Lilyofthevalley
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Nolai that is a good point.
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