Urgent: Needing info about The University of Arizona!

[aggieAXO]

I have been reading this thread with great interest. I am sorry that your parents will not let you attend the university of your choice. It is your life and you should make that decision in my opinion. However, please feel lucky that your parents are going to pay for your college education. I and many of my friends did not have that luxury and I am now in tons and tons of debt-it sucks. Sometimes I get so angry thinking about it that I start yelling at my mom and wondering why the f**k she and my father had never set up a college fund for my brother and I-we had plenty of money to do that so there was no excuse. I am slowly climbing out of debt and will hopefully have my school loans payed off within the next 2-3 years. It still makes me sooooo angry that I have to spend at least a third to half my salary saving to pay off these f**king loans. UGHHHHHH
sorry had to bitch a bit.

Good Luck and from reading your posts you sound like a very intelligent woman-I bet you get into all of the colleges and then have to choose which one you would most like to attend.

[Miami1839]

Newbie,

My advice is to not rule anything out and I would obtain financial aid information/student loans at UA or any out of state schools your interested in. Also, go to your bank. I agree with aggieaxo. I also had to get student loans and fortunately I paid them off two years after graduating. I didnt like the fact that they didnt pay but I just didnt have an option. Be thankful that you have choices. I actually got into Arizona State but because of the amt of out of state tuition my parents were not going to pay. I think if I would have done more leg work on the financial aid or some sort of student loan I might have had a chance. I think at the time Arizona St. was only willing to fork up 1000 dollars in scholarship to me but nonetheless I could have went there. However, that doesnt mean that I love my old school any less its just I only had certin options at the time.

[amycat412]

See I did it in reverse== I chose to NOT go to the school that gave me a full 4 year scholarship -- the University of San Diego. Why? It reminded me too much of my high school -- small and catholic-- and my two best friends were going there and much as I loved and still love them, I felt I MUST strike out on my own.

So I chose the school that had quickly become my first choice after the campus visits I did with my Dad my senior year in high school-- USC. USC gave me a partial scholarship--which I promptly lost when I partied too much my freshman year and my grades SUCKED--so while my parents had agreed to cover the difference in the scholarship, other financial aid and the actual cost of USC-- I found myself suddenly out of my own irresponsibility having to pay for the portion that the scholarship covered myself. That was HARD, it still is HARD since I am still paying that off-- But it was 100% worth it and continues to be 100% worth it. So my path turned out to be a bit screwier and more difficult than I had anticipated-- I was still at the school I wanted to be at, the school I loved.

[aggieAXO]

I had no choice of schools, there are only about 25 vet schools in the US and Texas A&M is the only one in Texas, luckily I was raised an aggie and love my school to this day, however if my mom had said if you go to such and such school and I will pay fully I may have gone to undergrad somewhere else-who knows.

[newbie]

Well, no real update, but just wanted to say that I'm happy USC accepts mid-year reports! Unfortunately the UCs don't.

Well, that's all for now...off to study for some big tests tomorrow.