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<p>What will be the difference between the vast intangible benefits I gain if I leave for UVA at 18 or 20? I’ll still have to grow up one way or another and to me it doesn’t matter which way, long as I get to UVA. </p>
<p>Plus I’m not looking only at the immediate financial costs, I’m also looking at the long term financial costs. </p>
<p>Immediate financial costs:
- Tuition at state school: $5000-6000+, Tuition at CC: like $2200
- Room and board at state school: like $7000, Room and board at home: FREE
- Personal expenses,books state: let’s say $2500… at CC: not sure, but probably cheaper…</p>
<p>All that is an estimate, obviously, real figures could be higher or lower… but I’m fairly close</p>
<p>Long term financial costs:
-if I attend a state school for all 4 years at an average of $15,000 per year it comes out to $60,000 for the whole shabang… let’s say I get about half of that in grants… that’s $30,000 I still need to pay with for loans and other means… I have no cash saved up for college so that means I’m gonna have to take out loans and then probably won’t be able to repay those loans until after I graduate and interest and crap kicks in… probably be paying that ish off for atleast 10 years… I also plan on attending grad school so this is a big negative
-If I attend community college I can easily pay off the first two years by working a part time job and be able to save up for the next two years at UVA at the same time, significantly reducing my debt…</p>
<p>I don’t know… I like my community college back up plan…</p>