Kaliforniajets

Hello everyone. I'm currently in Florida right now visiting my grandparents, and I absolutely love it here and fell in love with it here. Anyhow, I'm from Pennsylvania and I currently am attending community college there, My plan is to complete my 2 years of CC and then transfer to a school here in Florida. However I looked at the expenses and I don't know if this would be a foolish decision or not on my part. Like for example I checked college navigator, and over the course of two years I'd be spending 64k. I am majoring in Education by the way and I honestly do NOT want to teach or live in PA after college, but I don't wanna spend more than I'll be able to afford while at FIU (that's the main one I want.)

Is this a foolish decision? Thanks..

dodgersmom

If you can afford the $64k, then spend it. If you (or your parents) would have to borrow it, then, yes, hate to say it, but that's pretty foolish.

Kaliforniajets

I was justifying it because the 2 years of community college are going to be completely free except for the books. Honestly I want to teach in Fl, not PA. Yeah I would have to borrow it. I don't know who is rich enough to have 64k just laying around. Haha. I was hoping I could get financial aid to cover it, but I mean if it's too much for me to be able to afford after I graduate, I'm not going to screw myself over.

happymomof1

Would you still want to teach if you moved to Florida? Then find out about teacher certification requirements there. If there is reciprocity with PA, you can finish college according to your original plan and then move to FL.

Kaliforniajets

http://www.swarthmore.edu/Documents/...eciprocity.pdf

According to this, yeah and if I'm reading it right, fairly easy at that. I wasn't considering doing this at first because I thought it'd be a long, annoying process but maybe it isn't.