Reply to Help with considerations: Syracuse vs full ride at Catholic

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

Reply to "Help with considerations: Syracuse vs full ride at Catholic"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think finances need to be taken into serious consideration here. A full scholarship and no student debt is a huge thing. If the family has money saved to pay for Syracuse, that's one thing, but, if not, having no debt is an excellent way to start out. [/quote]

Except Syracuse is down to [b]$10k/yr for her.  Not sure if that includes room & board[/b], but even if it doesn’t, having to pay $10k instead of $55k/year is a really big deal, especially for a highly regarded degree like communications from Syracuse. [/quote]

I'm on the other side of your argument but it is $10k plus the other costs PLUS travel to/from school for breaks, etc.  Those little costs add up.

I'm going to go off on a tangent here and say that our family foundation awards full ride scholarships to kids and we found that we had to cover more than tuition and room/board to relieve the financial burden from the kids.  They also needed book money, spending money, and travel money in order to make it so now we add in an additional stipend.  Now it sounds like OP's family is in better financial circumstances than perhaps some of the kids we encounter with our scholarship program but I think we need to consider that there is more to the cost of college than just the tuition, and most scholarships do not cover room and board.  It is hard to study and focus, and maintain your A average if you're hungry and you can't afford the textbook you need.

I think OP's kid has some great options.  If they can swing the $10k in tuition plus perhaps room and board and all the ancillary costs then Syracuse is a good option.  But if they can't then they need to grab onto the Catholic or St. Joe's full rides as fast as they can![/quote]

OP said that Syracuse was $10K a year, not $10K/year plus Room and Board.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics