Cornell vs UVA (Debt vs No Debt)

oldfort
Sun, 26 Apr 2015 02:59:50 +0000

IF you are able to work in finance or well paid technology job, you could easily pay off 60K in two years. I spoke at one of Cornell’s start-up tech seminars. If you want to work at a real start-up company, you really can’t afford to have student loans because you wouldn’t be paid much in the beginning.

I really can’t blame you for wanting to go outside of your home state for college, especially UVA because most students are in state. At Cornell you would get to interact with student from other regions/countries. I think it would be worth it for you to spend additional 60K to get that experience. One other thing to consider is you could get a very lucrative junior year internship to help with expenses. Some of those internships pay 20+k over the summer.