Kyla, yes, the tuition in some places can be $30,000/year.
If…
you don’t get a scholarship. Which you will. Just about everybody at those $30,000/year schools is there on a scholarship.
you don’t get more scholarships once you show up there. Freshman year tends to be the most expensive, but if you keep your grades up, you can get even more money knocked off your tuition bill.
you don’t get financial aid. Financial aid is notoriously unreliable, though, especially if you’ve got just enough money to go to college, but not enough to fork over 120 grand over four years.
there’s no work study available. Get a job at the library counter and do your homework for three hours three days a week, and you can knock $4 - $7,000 off your tuition. Work study jobs at small colleges tend to be very easy (don’t work in the cafeteria!!!) and simpler than holding an off-campus job. And easy to get. Apply early.
Look at the $30,000 sticker as the maximum amount you would ever, ever have to pay if you went there. Tuition here is supposed to be $27,000. I’m paying $21,000, because of the scholarship. If I had a work study job, it would be down around $16 - $17,000.
That’s less than the current neighboring-state tuition at Iowa.
Yes, college kids are now paying upwards of $20,000 to go to STATE SCHOOLS. It’s getting ugly out there.
McGill is Canada’s Harvard (actually, Harvard is the American McGill), and they charge about $Cdn2000 (yes, count the zeroes again) per year for a Canadian undergraduate. For foreign students it is a deal more, but still much more reasonable than any private American school.
Also, our registration system (MARS) is somewhat puzzling, but it’s never seriously screwed me over.
Ha! I didn’t even apply to Macalester!
Yea Mizzou! and their stupid phone registration system! i drew a cartoon about how smurfed up it was, but sadly it is not online anywhere.
You know, I actually did used to be an amazing fucking writer, then this fucking college wouldn’t let me take any writing classes. My talent has since wasted away.
There’s no way talent can “waste away.” Either you’re in a dry spell or the fucking school is eating up all your proud disdain, which can cause a dry spell.
A year ago my small state school started online registration…and you know what? It’s quick, easy, and I have yet to fail to get a class I want on it. So I go and get all the permissions I need for my music classes (for some reason, I have to get permissions for all of them) and then I go home and register in my underwear.
Works for me. But I do feel your pain. How do you think I ended up in Quantitative Methods as a first-semester sophomore? Because it was the ONLY FREAKING PSYCH CLASS OPEN by the time I was allowed to register, which at that time I had to do in person, the day before classes started. Oh, the pain, but I got a B in it so I guess it was worth it.
I don’t know how it is these days, but when I was a grad student at UC Berkeley many moons ago, the undergrads had to literally camp outside the building overnight in order to register for classes. It wasn’t unusual for a popular/required class like Intro Psych to have 1000 people on the “waiting list.”
Erm, my registration wasn’t so bad. It was online, and similar to pepperlandgirl, since I’m a Hispanic Scholar (but not in the Honors program…yet!), I get to register early. Got all the classes I wanted, and the schedule I wanted.
Yet 2 of my roomates couldn’t register for a required course. They had to enter the wait list. My friend had a similar problem, but called her advisor and through some connections, a seat in all the sections of the class was opened. She registered, and so did many others.
Strange…how they have less seats open that are needed for basic, required courses?
Daowajan, you gotta choose University of Iowa! This place rocks! Really, good times! Come here and hang out with me, I’ll get you hired at my student job and we’ll have a good old time!
That loss of transfer credits really boils my oil!
What’s so magical about one college’s list of courses versus another’s? Nothing.
I lost lots of credits because I switched from a semester school to one with quarters. Even though the semesters were longer, they didn’t count because the year hadn’t been completed and only full years tranfered.
Why would we have to register to fuck? Isn’t fucking free, well, fucking FREE!?
I hope nobody has to register to get fucked. That’s like signing up to go to a ‘Federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison’ (thanks, Office Space :D). No, wait, that’s like Social Security. Or the draft.
Fucking the registration doesn’t sound pleasant. After all, paper isn’t the softest material, unless you lube it up real good. With toothpaste.
Fucking the registration process sounds fun. I can just imagine the signs we’d carry: ‘Get outta my way or get onto my dick!’ ‘If you aren’t fucking me, you’re fucking nuts!’
If this post isn’t creative fucking writing, or fucking creative writing, I don’t know what is.
Mmmm… creative fucking.
(Why do I have the sneaking sensation this will be a lot less funny tomorrow?)
I’m at my college because its easy to register here.
I pick my courses. I find someone in my department (its a floor of the engineering building, technically I’m supposed to get the head of Chem Eng to sign off on what I do because I’m …special…but since he’s busy, anyone will sign off on his students.) I find someone to sign my stuff. I hand it to Adrian, the nice Chem Eng secretary and chat for five minutes while she puts me in the system. I sign a printout. I go home.
