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Re:Judge rules that student loan debt is dischargeable in ba... by Godel_unicode on Sunday January 12, 2020 @09:29PM (#22031369)
Compare that to UMBC right up the road. Full-time tuition for a year is under $12k, plus a few thousand in books and fees leaves you at less than half of your private schools number less financial aid. And everyone gets aid if you're instate in MD.

Go to public schools, live at home, get out with little debt. It's really not a difficult choice, and it gets even easier if you know about the existence of community colleges.

Stop anchoring impressionable kids to ridiculous tuition numbers.

Edit: the highest average in-state tuition is Vermont with just over $17k. If you're willing to go to a state school, you can do it for under $80k for 4 years.

https://research.collegeboard.org/trends/college-pricing/fig...

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Re:Judge rules that student loan debt is dischargeable in ba... by cpitman on Sunday January 12, 2020 @09:47PM (#22031434)
Hah, no kidding. For what its worth, I grew up in a family that moved often, and was not technically in-state anywhere. If I had known that my family would also move to Maryland, College Park would have been probably where I would have aimed for. Younger siblings attended there, and with the Maryland scholarships essentially graduated debt free.
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