University choice

[Buzzworthy]

Yeah JT! That’s awesome to hear! Exciting to see what our kids are capable of!

My daughter got more good news today with a scholarship to the University of Utah College of Science Access Program. It’s a program designed for women in STEM that helps prepare them for undergraduate research. She’ll get to spend 2 weeks in June at the U for a summer kick off and then work through program requirements her first year on campus.

https://science.utah.edu/access/

[riser4]

If he wants to go to WPI, I'd encourage him to do so. $10k per year is certainly a lot of money, but $40k in extra debt honestly isn't that big a deal if you're getting an economically useful degree from a good, well-connected school - which WPI is. His interest in RPI and WPI suggests what he's focusing on to me and those are pretty lucrative careers. I wouldn't worry might about student loan debt in that case. Obviously if he doesn't finish or transfers to become an art major it might be an issue, but going to a place like WPI will likely set him on a path where debt service isn't a big deal.

UVM is also a good school and if you stick to the same path I'm sure you'd do well, but the median earnings of a CS major that started WPI 10 years ago (so 5-6 years into their career) are $109k, while a UVM student starting the same time with the same major is earning a median of $65k. Now, I'm sure there are some selection effects involved, but when the extra debt is less than median difference in a single year's salary, I'll take on the debt.

Edit: My salary information is from the US Government's College Scorecard. Salary information is drawn from students who received federal financial aid, so not a perfectly representative set of students but probably the relevant one if you qualify for any subsidized student loans.

Because I'm old and senile and suck at basic math, and some schools include the $5500 of federal loans in the price and some don't, the difference is more like $15K per year over UVM, so that's $60k difference over four years. That's the price of some new vehicles these days. WPI doesn't negotiate, he tried. Clarkson looks willing to bargain. He sick of living in the middle of nowhere and Potsdam makes our corner of the world look down right cosmopolitan.

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Yeah JT! That’s awesome to hear! Exciting to see what our kids are capable of!

My daughter got more good news today with a scholarship to the University of Utah College of Science Access Program. It’s a program designed for women in STEM that helps prepare them for undergraduate research. She’ll get to spend 2 weeks in June at the U for a summer kick off and then work through program requirements her first year on campus.

https://science.utah.edu/access/

Congrats!

[Tap]

yeah, that's dope, Buzz. Send some of that this way....the financial situation changed dramatically between UofA and Cal Poly. That's how it goes tho. She just couldn't get around the 40K student body at UofA, and that most of them were fake blond fake eyelash sorority/frat party vibe.

[Buzzworthy]

yeah, that's dope, Buzz. Send some of that this way....the financial situation changed dramatically between UofA and Cal Poly. That's how it goes tho. She just couldn't get around the 40K student body at UofA, and that most of them were fake blond fake eyelash sorority/frat party vibe.

I thought that as well, your bill definitely went up. Can’t say I’d argue with her rationale though. Cal Poly is quite a school too.

Med school comes after undergrad so she’s applying for all the assistance she can muster up. I’m ok with this plan.

[Tap]

Yep. Would be different if they wanted to study Ancient Roman texts or Rennaisance Art. I'm all for the hard science shit.

[Tap]

Ladies and gents, please welcome the newest aerospace engineering student to Cal Poly….

[Norseman]

Hell yeah. Congrats

[billyk]

Congrats! Money well spent.

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Tap, that’s great, congrats to her!

[riser4]

We put down the deposit for thing #2 to go to WPI. How much can I get for a kidney?

[I Skied Bandini Mountain]

It's never enough, take my word for it.

[SorryBro]

My son was accepted in the University of Washington engineering school! So proud of this kid and all he has gone through. UW was his first choice with Western WA being second. So happy he will be close to home so I can grab lunch with him once in a while.

He received a scholarship for the full tuition amount so we will only need to pay for room/board. That plus 2 years running start will be such a financial relief.

Congrats to all you proud parents of future scholars.

[Tap]

Wow, thats huge SB. Congrats!!!

[bodywhomper]

It’s been such a weird high school experience.

My oldest got accepted to cal poly humboldt. Chem major. It was the only school that he applied to. He’s got a lot of college units but will likely still take 4 yrs because of course availability/schedule for the major. Lots of opportunities for other courses, though. He’s been pretty stoked on the scientific diving program.

How many of y’all have kiddos heading to college w/o a drivers license?

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SorryBro, that's great!

[yeahman]

How many of y’all have kiddos heading to college w/o a drivers license?

Heh, not us but my sister in law has three of them. She does not drive and I'm afraid this has rubbed off on her kids.

OTOH my daughter at Seattle U was not even allowed to bring a car as a freshman. She could bring it next year but it's $100 a month parking fee. By now she's got the public transit so wired I doubt a car will be necessary anyway, especially for anything in the city. Her local friends drive her to Snoqualmie and she takes the rec program van to Crystal for ten bucks.

[fatnslow]

We put down the deposit for thing #2 to go to WPI. How much can I get for a kidney?

Only half a semester's worth of tuition if your lucky. The chinese have caused the bottom to drop out of the black market organ donor market.

[californiagrown]

How many of y’all have kiddos heading to college w/o a drivers license?

Why would you need a DL? I never drove a car once in college- i just bummed rides from friends/roommates, or took the airport shuttlebus, or just walked... its amazing how how far i walked daily in all kinds of shitty weather like it wasnt no thing during college. Hell i hope my kid never brings his car to college as i dont want him getting pressured into driving everywhere (E.g. to and from parties).

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How many of y’all have kiddos heading to college w/o a drivers license?

i finally forced mine to get a license just after he turned 17 -- i needed him to share driving home from the hill!!
entirely by chance, his senior year he needed to drive between campuses to get to classes, so that turned out to be especially useful.
a year later, he drives stick, complains about my truck & my wife's vw golf, and he's now all into cars & has upgraded his exhaust & turbo intake
he wants to lower mrs ::: :::'s car & straight pipe her exhaust

[Norseman]

My son was accepted in the University of Washington engineering school! So proud of this kid and all he has gone through. UW was his first choice with Western WA being second. So happy he will be close to home so I can grab lunch with him once in a while.

He received a scholarship for the full tuition amount so we will only need to pay for room/board. That plus 2 years running start will be such a financial relief.

Congrats to all you proud parents of future scholars.

Wow, congrats! What flavah of engineering is he leaning towards?

[Buzzworthy]

Yeah dads! I can feel the pride happening. Pretty damn cool to watch our kids doing so well!!

[CuriousGeorge]

Congrats all to a job well done..
Have one to add to the pile, my senior has a couple more day to make his choice. Has it narrowed down to Colorado School of Mines v Reed (likely the 3+2 Engineering path via Columbia | Caltech). A genuinely curious human, very proud.

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[fatnslow]

Reed and Mines seem like very different environments , good luck to the kid choosing what's right for him. FWIW my brother did a 3/2 program finishing at Columbia in the 80's and he absolutely hated Columbia. He was at a small college with a very involved community of teachers and when he was at Columbia it was completely the opposite.

[skaredshtles]

Youngest kid *finally* selected. Will be a CU Buff in the fall in the eng school studying aerospace.

There goes all my ski money.