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mcc
9/14/06
fuggy
10 reasons not to accept that out-of-state scholarship to the ‘better’ college
1. If there is a job offer upon graduation it will usually be for the town you will be studying in. Recruiters will simply give you the card of some contact they have in your hometown.So, whereas you thought you were just going away to study, you are stuck there.
2. The scholarship is a come-on. They want to make money off of you. If you do not believe me, visit the campus. How much does one load of laundry in the dorm cost? Twenty minutes of dryer time? How much do snacks, like soft drinks, on campus cost? They would have a free coffee shop if they cared. They wouldn’t suggest you do work-study and commit to a full schedule if they felt their school was really worth $20,000 every 4 months. You would be able to buy used books inexpensively…
3. The campus meal plan is a lonely nightmare. Remember going to lunch in high school and how much fun that was? Think about that for three meals a day. Except that, unlike high school lunch, nobody has the same schedule as you. And even if your friends eat with you freshman year, if they move off campus, to a different dorm, if they join Navy ROTC you will then be eating alone much of the time sophomore year. Students gain 20 pounds because they are lonely and eat to comfort themselves.
4. Think you will be with your peers? If you are attending and need the scholarship, you will be surrounded by rich people. They discuss their upcoming trip to Aspen mostly. Competing with these stylish people is rough.
5. Think you will make powerful friends to last a lifetime? Upon graduation you will be saddled with debt but will still need money to buy a car, to live, to purchase a career wardrobe, to find work. Your fabulous friends will hand you wedding invitations. You will not have a cent to buy them $150 gifts, fly across the country and pay for a hotel. You will be lucky to ever hear from them again.
6. The coolest people on campus live within an hour away and commute. They are always clean. They wear ironed shirts. They are never desperate for company. They always have their high school friends and their parents to give them emotional support. They drive a car because their Dad keeps it repaired for them. They can change their own oil because they have a garage. They have money because they do not have the burden of running their own household , they didn’t just spend $20 on laundry and their parents feed them most of the time.
7. Upon graduation will you have money to move straight to New York like your rich friends or will you move back home with your parents? By going out of state you passed up four years or so of making contacts and friends back in your home town who might help you get a job.
8. Will your parents buy you a new car with a warranty if you live at home and go to college nearby? It is a deal for both of you. You will be able to get your life started. Will that stupid partial scholarship to the expensive U do that?
9. Does this expensive U have your best interests at heart or those of the professors? Go to Monster.com and check how many positions there are for entry-level international relations. Check for anthropology. You will have to continue on to law school to make that degree pay anything. Do not go into debt for an undergraduate degree that does not guarantee a job. And do not believe the Career Placement Office that a degree in Finance will pay $60K upon graduation. Check and double check. Ask them who hires those grads. Call the company and ask if they hire all Finance grads that university produces. Or, if you are not in the top 10% of the class, were you just there for four years to make the top 10% look good? There are 31 entry level Finance jobs offered right now on Monster.com. In the entire United States of America. (I am going to guess many of them are sales jobs for financial products people do not want.) Do not go into debt for a competitive job for which you may have to move.
10. Do not be so easily flattered. A $2,000 scholarship doesn’t mean anything if the university costs $30,000 every nine months. You have to travel back and forth, too! I know it sounds glamorous, but it isn’t. Going into debt to be around rich people sucks.
3/3/06
charlie
hi girl i want a matct
3/2/06
Jack
Alas, suspected Wellesley alumna Annie misunderstands that with the literally thousands of schools in the U.S., simply failing to make the top 26 doesn't mean it's a bad school. There are probably a lot of good schools that didn't make this list.
8/25/04
Annie
What about Wellesley and BYU, they are both really good schools. Both of the North Carolina Universities are good as well.
4/13/04
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