Penn State worth 46K per year?

lullababy
Tue, 09 Apr 2013 01:20:53 +0000

Can u tell me why do u think Penn State is nt worth that money?



Because unless the parents have a huge amount of money saved, it’ll be like $184,000 for all four years. Probably more because of travel expenses, books/supplies, and tuition rises.

If you can afford PSU, then by all means, go for it! But if you have to take out massive amounts of loan, I don’t think it’s worth it whatsoever. Agreeing with @greenbutton, “No school can guarantee you a job, no school can guarantee you contentment and happiness and success.”

Plus, UW is a great school, if not better, and you’ll be saving a lot of money if you do CC and transfer w/ IS tuition.



My parents said that they could pay for it (and even discouraged me from going to CC) since they have been saving money wherever they could since I was born and for the fact that I am an only-child. However, we are not rich and I don’t know if college is worth this price.

OP, I understand that your parents said they could pay for it but how much in loans would they be taking out at your expense? I’m also an only child so I have the same luxury as you and understand your situation (I really wanted to go to PSU w/ OOS tuition too). We are upper-middle class and still could not afford PSU without taking out some loans. It is an expensive school for OOS students.

Are you parents like mine where they don’t like the idea of CC because they look down upon it? Lol, jw, because my parents encouraged me to go to PSU rather than CC–>transfer too because they hated CCs /that/ much.