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[doyle]

I'm looking around Stanford's website for a Connor fic. Clicky clicky onto the law school and I read:

Local transportation, clothing, recreation, and the like are more variable items, but most single students will find that they need to budget a total of at least $50,000 for the school year. For a married student, the minimum budget will be about $60,000. Tuition is due at registration in September and January.

...holy *shit*. $50,000? That's £27,000! Or, to put it another way, more than ten times what the last university year cost me, including 12 months rent.

The £16,000 ($30,000) student loan debt I'll have when I graduate suddenly doesn't seem quite so bad.

ETA: Also, the jvtl_project (Jossverse timeline project) makes my canon-geek heart go squee.

And in my head Stanford!Connor is studying anthropological science.

Comments

[jedi-penguin.livejournal.com]

It's worse than that. Credit card companies actively pursue college students and encourage them to get into debt. My sister did not go to college, and she had a helluva time getting a credit card. I did go, and got three to five application forms a week. Since the applications stopped coming after I paid off the last of my college loans, I can only assume that the loan companies sell names to the credit card companies.

[chicken-cem.livejournal.com]

Yes -- the pursuit begins on the very first day of school. The students walk down the street in a strange new town on the way to the Bookstore, outside of which are multiple tables set up with credit card company reps behind them waiting to snag the students.

[makd.livejournal.com]

college professor here, so I know whereof I speak: the COLLEGES sell the names and addresses! Sometimes, the high schools sell the names and addresses.

and the credit cards for students? usually at 21.5% interest, whereas, if you hunt around, you can get a credit card for 8-9% interest.

I've had students graduating from the State U where I teach owing about $75k...just from tuition, etc., because they swiped the card rather than borrow from a bank.

Irony? the usual interest rate for student loans here is ~8% - so the students owing $$ have really overpaid if they've borrowed with a credit card rather than a loan.