College Students+Grads, Who paid for your education?scholarship, grants,student loan,worked/paid your own way?
Aug 9th, 2008 by admin
I ask because,I know only one woman who worked,paid her way through school ,but many who got grants or scholarships.
The men I know who’ve graduated either worked their way through or paid off student loans.
What? It must be different where you are because all my female friends, like me, paid using student loans.
I’ll be paying student loans for a long time. I’ve had my Bachelor’s for a few years and went back for my MBA so I’ll be paying for BOTH degrees for a while (not too much to pay off on the Bachelor’s thankfully).
My parents paid for my first year. After that I got a line of credit to $16,000, which my dad paid for me at the end of my third year after I worked for him in the summer. Currently at the end of my 4th year and I have the same line of credit at $10,000, which I will pay.
When I went for my first degree I paid 100% of my tuition out of pocket by working 3 jobs. I have just recently returned to school and I have loans to cover most of my education and a grant that covers 1 class a year. My out of pocket right now is $474 a year, however I will have thousands in loans by the time I am done. I hope this helps.
My parents and my grandmother set up an RESP for me when I was a baby, so I’m paying for school with that. I also won $1,250 worth of scholarships after high school.
I went to both undergrad and law school on academic scholarships. I worked also, to support myself while I was attending school, because my scholarships were books and tuition only. I know many women who worked their way through College, and many men who got “full-ride” athletic scholarships, including room and board, and in many instances a car. There are FAR more “full-ride” athletic scholarships for men than there are for women.
I had a half athletic, half academic scholarship. I paid for nothing, and they even did my laundry for me lol.
The Department of Rehab paid for mine but because you can’t work while their client, I existed (paid rent, gas, food, etc.) through student loans each semester. I’ll probably be dead before it’s paid off.
military is thanks….and I work as well for my other expenses…dont have any student loans at least now I dont.
Everyone I know who has gone to college, men and women, had student loans, but I don’t know too many independently wealthy people.
I had a German scholarship but it was only $500-barely paid for 1 quarter worth of books. I had to get loans. They are still not paid off yet though.
You must run with an exceptionally gifted crowd. There was no way that I could have made enough money working while in college to pay for my schooling. I only made minimum wage in college. What’s so wrong with that? Grants are given to the poor for college-but they typically only help with the lower-division course work. Most people have to get loans.
And Sunny Day is right-athletic scholarships for men far outnumber any others. Not that I have a problem with that. Let’s just not assume that women go to college for free while men have to pay.
My first year of college, I got pell grants that covered most of my college expenses. I also had a foundation scholarship (one semester) and a competitive scholarship based on my ACT score. I started off at a community college before transferring to a four-year university. Second year, I “made too much” and wasn’t eligible for pell grants so I took out student loans.
When I transferred, I still had the competitive scholarship which helped. I also was awarded some small grants. This only covered about 15% of my tuition and fees so I took out more student loans and paid whatever I needed to out of pocket.
I worked full-time while going to school and paid for my living expenses out of my own pocket. (Never lived on campus.)
Still paying off loans…
Grammar and high school were free (Catholic schools, before they started charging tuition)
College: Scholarships for most, parents paid the rest. But I worked P/T evenings as a supermarket checkout girl and paid them room & board weekly)
Graduate School: Teaching assistantship and loan for living expenses
Law School: Loans, loans, loans!
MBA: see Law School
So I may be the oldest living debtor to Sallie Mae.
Tuition costs are horrendous these days. I give parents a TON of credit.
Worked my way through 2 degrees with a combination of student loans, crappy paying jobs, scholarships and one grant that my mother’s job allowed me to get.
Both the scholarships and the grant were based only on grades, and my brother got the same grant and scholarships I did. So, I consider that money earned as much as the money that I worked summers to save.
I was lucky enough to have parents who let me live rent free too, otherwise it would have cost me a lot more.
A mix of me working, my parents and student loans for four years of university.
When I went to college in the late 60’s and early 70’s, I worked full time and carried 12-15 units per semester. No grants; no loans; no help. I lived in an apt. and paid all my bills by myself - or split them when I had a roommate. I did that throughout my undergraduate and graduate schools. I have worked all my life, starting in high school, and wouldn’t have had it any other way. It’s a good feeling to pay your own way,and it makes you value what you have.
Edit: I should point out that tuition was a lot cheaper then, but still not easy to raise compared to what salaries were.
Both my husband and I have very generous mommies, daddies or grandparents that paid our tuition. We feel we are truly blessed and are truly appreciative.
We both worked while in college to support ourselves otherwise. My husband worked 40+ and I worked 35 hours per week while full time in school and graduating with honors.
I grew up in a very well to do town so most of the men and women i know had thier parents pay for thier education, I on the other hand used a mix of Grants, loans, and out of pocket
grants, loans, and worked full time.
My parents paid for my BA out of savings - when people gave me money as a child, my parents invested it in bonds for me, so that paid for a lot of it. My husband started his BS with a scholarship, but lost it due to bad grades. He then took a job at the university and got 2 free classes per semester. I got a job and later went back for my MS, which was paid for out of savings. I now work at a university, so my employer will pay for my eventual second MS or Ph.D. My husband still works at a university as well, so if he decides to get his MS then it will be funded by his employer.
Gee I thought having scholarships meant I did work my way through! I worked damn hard for scholarships.
My parents were old fashioned and had a college savings account for me. That covered what my scholarships didn’t.
My graduate degrees I paid for by working- and parents left me a sizable inheritance.
I’m a female from a middle class family.
I had a campus job while I was in college and I took out student loans.
I graduated in 1999 and I’m still paying them back but…..I’M ALMOST DONE. I can’t hardly wait!!!!!
First two years it was free - honors program. The next two, loans, a Phi Theta Kappa and a volunteer scholarship (Frank Lloyd Right Home and Studio).
But this is the part I don’t understand: why is it that the interest on my student loan is higher than the interest on my mortgage?…. Why is that even allowed?
My parents paid plus I worked part time.
A scholarship, a part time job, and very generous parents
I worked and had scholarships. Do I feel like I got a free pass? Hell no. I was top of my class in high school and continued to be in the top group of students in college.
My parents had JUST enough money to pay for it, which was good because I didn’t get a scholarship and I’m not spending 20 years paying off loans.
I had a 96 GPA in high school, made a 27 on the ACT, and had a 3.8 GPA in junior college and still couldn’t get a scholarship. I wonder how people actually get those things.
Undergrad: scholarships. . . I had grades to die for and managed to keep them all the way through college to get to keep the best scholarship my school offered
Grad school: teaching/research assistantships that also have paid for all or at least part of my tuition
I had a merit scholarship when I was an undergrad, and I also worked p/t for my department as a research assistant. When I was in grad school, I had a combination of fellowships, TA and RA gigs. I don’t feel like I got a free ride- I am very grateful that I got out of school with no loans, but I worked my arse off to have 4.0 gpa as an undergrad and to get published as a grad.