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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My personal advice would be to tell your parents you will only go back if they pay half of that $80k. So you will take a max of $40k in loans.

Another idea is to try to do a year abroad or even be a visiting student at one of the colleges you like. Check with your advisor at Columbia (there are rules about how many credits you need to earn at the graduating school and how many of those credits must be consecutive before graduation) and some of the colleges. Here's Smith's program:

https://www.smith.edu/admission-aid/how-apply/visiting-year

Another related idea is to get permission to do a summer at another college) and maybe see if Columbia will give you internship credit and try to whittle down your time there to 2-3 semesters instead of 3-4.

Harvard's summer program has lots of 4 credit classes and Cambridge is very pleasant in the summer.

https://summer.harvard.edu/

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These are great ideas. Also look into whether you could do summer school in California for cheap and transfer the credits back to Columbia. You might be able to get out in fewer semesters than you think.[/quote]

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