I Done Did Goin' To College Mama

[Lucky DAWG]

HS shouldn't be very hard to get fairly high grades. It's all inflated these days anyway and if you can't maintain above a 3.5 in HS, you really need to examine how cost effective it is to go to a more competitive college or spend too much given less than half of people in college graduate.

I'd recommend applying to UGA still. Given the lack of guys, you actually may have a shot if they're looking to keep diversity up.

30k per year better be including all tuition, fees, and housing or it's an extreme ripoff. USC (The one in Cali) is only 33k tuition and it's a top 30 school. Unless you think that SC can provide a 20k better per year education than UGA or State, it's not exactly worthwhile. Assuming your parents front half of that, you're still over 60k in debt by the time you graduate and looking at payments of $600+/mon for 10 years. That's a hell of a lot of debt given the undergrad business degree starting salary averages only 40k.

To be honest, none of the schools you mentioned will get you to Wall St straight out unless you maintain a perfect 4.0 and have some badass internships at top companies. So recruiters for companies will mostly be comparing you to other grads from UGA, State, Auburn, etc on grades and internships rather than just school name. You'd do yourself a much bigger favor and pick a school you're likely to do very well in and minimize your costs. A high GPA and little debt is a far better way to get out of school than heavily in debt compared to the guy who went in state.

I chose the out of state/private school route and my parents dropped 100k in 3 years on top school in NY and it's arguable if the GT degree I also have doesn't get me just as far. I of course didn't study or attempt to keep the high grades...my friends up there who did manage to make 5-6X what I do already (they're no more than 27).


I'm not trying to paint an overly dark picture...just one that does a realistic cost/benefit comparison. If you've got your heart set on the school and the right mindset going in, the extra cost won't affect you too much.

thankyou but i have looked over it a lot.

i have gone to meetings with my college counciler countless times, and he won an award for being the top counciler in the southeast for highschools, we together decided that USC was the best fit.

we're also going to buy a house up there and get instate tuition by my second year. and its 27k for everything, room and board, tuition, food, transportation, personal etc.

The honors college which i plan on going to is one of the best in the entire country and rivals any private school, its got a great sports program and huge campus and 15,000 people which is hard to find at MOST private schools, not all ofcourse. i'm interested in international business too, which is #2 in the nation there.

so it works for me... also getting a high GPA there won't be a problem, i've learned from my mistakes and i'm not there to fuck around