How Much do you pay for College?

[BCLG100]

it depends whether i go to uni in scotland or england, its about £1700 tuition fees in Scotland and £3000 in England then living fees are i dont know how much really as i dont go till next year

 

[7ronin]

I paid tuition and fees of around $1800 per year in the early sixties. At that time there was no such thing as student loans or financial aid. It was either pay for it yourself or get a scholarship. The same school now charges $26,000 a year.

 

[IglooDame]

They paid me. Though I had to commit to 8 years of service in the Navy in return.

 

[Steph]

Sounds like a good deal here the average level of debt for students in the UK is 20,000 pounds ~$37,500.

Here is a gift from the Frenchy to one of the archenemy : £
Just copy and paste it when needed.
(Funny how a French keyboard as a working £ key but not yours).

 

[Steph]

They paid me. Though I had to commit to 8 years of service in the Navy in return.

How much were you paid? I wasn't paid (my marks at the entry exam were not good enough), but the first 12 at the exams were paid from about 1000 € / month (first year) to 2000 € / month (third year).

 

[Desmond Hawkins]

Aren't private Unis the best in the States?
In Brazil the public ones are best*, the opposite of what goes on in school.

*This is quickly changing though, as many quality private Unis are opening and the public ones are usually decadent.

Well, California resembles Brazil then. The private may still be the best, but I hear the UC system is good.

 

[shortguy]

Aren't private Unis the best in the States?
In Brazil the public ones are best*, the opposite of what goes on in school.

*This is quickly changing though, as many quality private Unis are opening and the public ones are usually decadent.

The very best colleges--at least, the most prestigious--are private, but some publics are not that far behind.

 

[Sidhe]

Here is a gift from the Frenchy to one of the archenemy : £
Just copy and paste it when needed.
(Funny how a French keyboard as a working £ key but not yours).

sometimes I think the channel is more of an ocean than a sea.

Thanks what's the exchange rate or is it free?

 

[Steph]

sometimes I think the channel is more of an ocean than a sea.

Thanks what's the exchange rate or is it free?

Your sentence hints to one of the many national characteristics that make the English people almost unbearable: your greediness.

French people are generous, and when they make a gift, they do not ask for something in exchange.


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Got you!

 

[Sidhe]

Kind of but I'm ridiculously poor so I'm looking for something cheap.

Thanks though.

 

[7ronin]

They paid me. Though I had to commit to 8 years of service in the Navy in return.

Didn't someone rate a year at Canoe U as being worth $250,000? Plus what kind of a price can you put on a three month summer vacation on America's premier cruise ship line?

 

[Nuka-sama]

Well considering lawyers don't need many math skills... Probably. As long as you weren't hoping Harvard?

AwWWWWWWWWWWWW CRAAAAAAPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
thats were i was hoping to go

 

[downtown]

AwWWWWWWWWWWWW CRAAAAAAPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
thats were i was hoping to go

Keep in mind that Law School is not undergrad really. You can have very top heavy test scores, (I had a 790 SAT verbal, but only a 610 SAT Math), go a decent college, work your ass off, and maybe go to a really nice law school.

 

[newfangle]

~4200USD per year.

And then I will go to one of those extraordinarily expensive US privat Unis as a grad student and get paid 20-25K.

Whoever wants to go to the Ivy league as an undergrad obviously has a chapter 11 wish.

 

[Plexus]

Well, California resembles Brazil then. The private may still be the best, but I hear the UC system is good.

The UC system is good (with a couple less presigious schools like Merced and Riverside), but the California pubilc higher education system is three-tiered: the best universities belong to the UC system, the still good universities belong to the CSU system, and the colleges belong to the community college system.

The top UCs (Berkeley, LA) are on par with the best private schools in the state, really.

 

[IglooDame]

How much were you paid? I wasn't paid (my marks at the entry exam were not good enough), but the first 12 at the exams were paid from about 1000 € / month (first year) to 2000 € / month (third year).

It is pegged at half the pay of a new O-1 officer, so currently $1200 per month. Books/uniforms/computer etc are taken out of that, and for the first year or two it went into an account that you weren't allowed to draw from except for those expenses, but given that you truly were treated as an officer being trained rather than a college kid who happened to be wearing a uniform, I personally think it was reasonable.

 

[IglooDame]

Didn't someone rate a year at Canoe U as being worth $250,000? Plus what kind of a price can you put on a three month summer vacation on America's premier cruise ship line?

Yeah, I've heard the quarter-million bit, but I think that is just a number they hand out to high school administrators so they can inflate the worth of their total student scholarships at graduation/awards ceremonies.

Then again, I was in the varsity offshore sailing team, and how many Ivy League colleges have one of those?

 

[7ronin]

The top UCs (Berkeley, LA) are on par with the best private schools in the state, really.

Don't forget UCSD.

 

[7ronin]

Then again, I was in the varsity offshore sailing team, and how many Ivy League colleges have one of those?

A ... ship was my Yale College and my Harvard, Herman Melville.

 

[IglooDame]

A ... ship was my Yale College and my Harvard, Herman Melville.

Sure, and he graduated swimma cum laude, right?