Vanderbilt undergrad, graduating with 40k debt : worth it?

MYOS1634
Thu, 09 Apr 2015 19:23:14 +0000

Vandy doesn’t package loans. If you weren’t offered work-study, considering the size of your grant/scholarship, email financial aid and ask.
SO, it’s $10,000, -$5,500 = $4,500. With $2,500 work study if you got it, you’re left with $2,000 to find. If you work this summer, you should earn that. Voila, Vanderbilt is affordable.
Of course I hope you appealed to get a little more, since I’m guessing you’re “asset rich, cash poor” as many farmers are, and I doubt selling an acre of land would do you any good. If the problem is about $2 to 3,000, I think Vanderbilt can reasonably review their assessment. Maybe it won’t do any good, but you can try.
Congratulations on that 34… you did better than 99% American students, including those with super expensive prep tutors!