How Much is Too Much?

ohiogirl
Fri, 30 Mar 2007 00:37:27 +0000

Anirak:

Also, am I supposed to settle for an utterly mediocre state school rather than choose a much better school? So basically, is the better education and the opportunity to live in a bigger city and start a new life not worth the money?



Amen! My dream is to get out of my state. I have always hated it here, and to me, it’s worth taking on a certain amount of debt for the experience. Life isn’t all about money.

Debt is terrifying, and that’s an awful lot of debt. Student loans are an investment to a point, but maybe try to get some gen ed credits out of the way at lower priced schools?

(About paying more in your later years: my stepfather was an independent student and paid for college by alternating a year of work with a year of classes. He said they decreased his aid to “wean him off of it.”)