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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Didn't read all 16 pages of comments, but if no one has mentioned it, think of what those plus loans look like. The subsidized school loans can be reasonable 3-4% rates. But my parents took out a plus loan in my first year of school - it was mine to pay back. 7.5% interest rate, which build a lot quicker. After doing my time and then Peace Corps, that $7,000 loan turned into $11,000. Taking time off might not be a bad idea for nothing else than to reduce the loan size.

I started at community college and then transferred to Cornell. The early classes use the exact same curriculum. But the ivy league one fails you and then curve you up to get enough people to drop the program. You don't learn anything special there. It's often worse because the professor at the ivy league has never studied teaching, and often wastes a ton of class time going over their niche research interests. All of the value of a good school is the resources. Do you get a cool internship? Did that nobel prize winning professor write you a recommendation? Did  that one club provide a good network and let you go on some absurd trip that gave you passion?

[b]If you're too tired and depressed to do those things, you're not going to end up any better off than if you went to cc.[/b][/quote]

OP here. I agree, which is why I'm inclined to leave. [/quote]

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