Money, dorms, and course load...

[Helen_of_Troy]

<p>Given that you get accepted where you want to go how are you...</p>

<p>...going to pay for school? (Gtown estimate for example is $45,000 for COL and SFS, and for Nursing about $46,000)</p>

<p>Where would you prefer living? Dorms or off campus? Why?</p>

<p>How many classes per semester are you planing to take? Major courses only, or some ineterest courses as well?</p>

<p>Me...</p>

<p>$$$ I have outside scholarship money that will cover 3/4 of the cost per year. Dunno how I am going to come up with the rest (hoping for little help from schools I guess)</p>

<p>Definetely on campus. Preferably Culture & Thematic Dorms with lots of different backgrounds and languages. Craving for the experience...</p>

<p>Load...I will need to consult someone on this one, but will be taking some interest courses, without overloading myself. 15-18 credits will do I gues</p>

[Nikki422]

<p>I hate being at work on friday nights...so slow. UGH... Anyway..</p>

<p>Umm..if I get into Georgetown..I guess I'll fall into that lovely $46K category. (stupid lab fees...GRR) How am I going to pay for it you ask? Haha...well um I am PRAYING for this Tylenol scholarship, but still, that's only 10K (only she says, only). I won't get an finaid because I'm not old enough to be free from my parents (if only I were born 5 months earlier) and they make FAR too much for me to get any help..I think my FAFSA EFC was somewhere around $42K..sucks. But, for some odd reason, my parents are deciding to help relieve a bit of the financial burden, umm meaning everything that schoalrships do not cover. This is uncharacteristicly odd for them. I was always the kid who had to pay for everything. I pay for my CC tuition, have bought my cars and insurance on own..blah blah blah. Anyway, im not going to complain!</p>

<p>I will live on campus, no questions asked. First off..DC apartments are hard to come by these days..not to mention WAY expensive. Not that R&B is cheap but..eh. I really am looking forward to living with a different mix of people...I feel like the whole dorm experience will be an essential part of college life..I can't wait to make new friends. :) I heart friends.</p>

<p>Umm..yeah my classes...Well, my first semester may be a little heavy around 19 credits, and then the spring will be kinda light...12ish. I don't have too much choice in my nursing course selection, until junior year. I won't be taking too many electives, I think only four my entire time at school, and even those have to within nursing classes (I think). Basically, if it weren't for abnormal psych and theology, I'd never be seen outside of St. Marys Hall.</p>

<p>Now that I have composed a novel that no one will read..lol. I'll shut my pie hole and attempt to continue this thing I call a job.</p>

[clig]

<p>Hey Helen.
Yeah I'm going to be going to CAL (unless I get into some of those ivys/stanford) and my parents will be paying for pretty much everything. It won't be so expensive, since I'm in state. I'll try to get some work-study going to I can pay for some food and that kinda stuff. After going to a CC, I feel like I won't get a 'college experience' so I will definately be dorming this coming Fall, plus I'll get to meet some more people.</p>

<p>I'm pre-med so I'll have to take some of those nonsense science courses. So, I'll be taking chemistry and physics, the rest of my classes will be major related (I'm philosophy major). I'm thinking about majoring in rhetoric, so I might take a rhetoric course. Although I am taking 38 units this quarter, I reckon UC B will be extremely challenging even with something like 15 units, so I am very cautious about taking more than I can handle. So, I might stick with 15-18 credits as well, and after I get a hang of things, I'll take a lighter load in the Spring semester and get involved in stuff I'm interested in.</p>

[Helen_of_Troy]

<p>LOL, I read it cuz I am really interested in what goes thru peoples' minds as they wait for the decisions... I am supposed to be writing history reflection papers but I am not... LOL ... Can't wait for the Fall and new friends and experience :)</p>

[Nikki422]

<p>Hmm..my mind is a dangerous/random/crazy place...One of my friends tells me on a regular basis that she wants to spend just 15 minutes in my head. Personally, I don't think she could handle it. :) hehe</p>

[Helen_of_Troy]

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Hmm..my mind is a dangerous/random/crazy place...One of my friends tells me on a regular basis that she wants to spend just 15 minutes in my head. Personally, I don't think she could handle it. :) hehe

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<p>What made you go into nursing?</p>

[Nikki422]

<p>Umm..lots of things..mostly the fact that I had cancer twice as a child. I really remember nothing about the doctors I had, but..I can honestly say that I had some REALLY GREAT nurses. I remember their names, their faces, everything. They made a HUGE difference in my life..I'd love to have the oppritunity to give back just a piece of what was given to me, and make a difference in a childs life..</p>

<p>And no, before anyone asks..I didn't write about this in my essays! ;)</p>

[Helen_of_Troy]

<p>Darn, why not?</p>

[Nikki422]

<p>I sort of felt like it would be a cheap shot or something. I don't know. I'd feel kinda bad about using cancer as my secret weapon for admission.</p>

[Helen_of_Troy]

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I sort of felt like it would be a cheap shot or something. I don't know. I'd feel kinda bad about using cancer as my secret weapon for admission.

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<p>It's not like you'll be cheating...or telling a lie, it's a truth, why not use it?</p>

[Nikki422]

<p>Eh..I don't know. What can I say..I'm weird. :) However I am trying my best for the American Cancer Society scholarship..</p>