Simple fiancial question

Zaersz
Sun, 30 May 2010 18:29:51 +0000

Interesting Question. I’m assuming you only mean Fall and Spring (not summer). Lets see, the cheapest on campus housing is $1,690 per semester for a non-air conditioned triple. Assuming an average course load of 15 credits, your tuition and fees will run $1,958.85 per semester. A unlimited 7 day a week mealplan is $1,772.60 per semester.

So, adding it all together, per semester, you need $5,421.45 which per year is $10,842.90 that would leave you $1157.1 per year. That should more then cover books.

Obviously there’s no extra money here, no money to buy clothes, no money to go out to dinner, no money to buy birthday presents, no money for gas (to go home or to get around town). And technically you could save money by eating super frugally at home instead of the meal plan, but often people don’t realize how difficult that is.

However, yes, it seems doable, unless I’m missing some expense NECCESARY expense, but I don’t think I am missing anything.