College Student Pays $14,000 Tuition In Singles

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When I read the headline that said a college student "pays $14k tuition in singles," I was sure the student in question must have been working her way *cough*stripper*cough* through school. Nope, it was just some dude.

"You're looking at all this money and you're thinking 'Wow, this is for one semester of school," the out-of-state student told a Colorado news station about toting the cash to the bursar's office in a duffel bag. "It was quit a sight and they said that nobody had even payed in ones before.... I just hope that it kind of stirs some conversations and people talk about it."
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I've talked about doing similar things but never really got past the talking part. I bet the clerk at the office shat a brick.
 
Oh boohoo, that's what you get for going out of state. It's a known fact that in-state is cheaper than going elsewhere. Article void.

protip: My tuition this semester is about $3,600 and I'm taking 5 classes...
 
Wait till you get in Graduate School and then a Doctorate. That's where all my money went. We had to pay monthly payments that were more than our house just to pay for mine and my wifes Graduate school.
 
blgdinger said:
Oh boohoo, that's what you get for going out of state. It's a known fact that in-state is cheaper than going elsewhere. Article void.

protip: My tuition this semester is about $3,600 and I'm taking 5 classes...
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Depends on where you're going I guess.. and how many credits those classes actually are... I can take 5 x 1 credit classes... :rolleyes:

Credits at my school are something like $515 each... and 95% of students take 16-20 credits (5-6 classes) so it's on the order of $8,000-10,000 a semester... 154 credits to graduate... and actually tuition is going up next fall to $566 ... weee
 
blgdinger said:
Oh boohoo, that's what you get for going out of state. It's a known fact that in-state is cheaper than going elsewhere. Article void.
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Yeah it's a pretty well known fact that if you go to a state-funded university you'll pay more than all the kids who had parents that had taxes go into that school

His mom says she hopes her son's stunt will bring some attention to the rising cost of an education. "Tuition has gone up so much and there are a lot of kids who don't have a family who can send them to school," she explains.
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Another pro-tip. state schools do not make money, as it stands they STILL get money from the state, and what that means is tuition does not pay for the school in its entirety. Yes there is waste, and other places to save money, but where was your outrage 18 years ago when your child was born? Where was the push to pay more taxes so that your state had a decent higher education system so your child didn't have to go to another state? Now that you're footing the bill, its all of a sudden inconvenient to pay for school.

The real sad thing is that state schools (UC Berkeley comes to mind) are pushing towards giving the nod towards out of state students over in-state students specifically so they get those higher out-of-state tuition fees.
 
It is still cheaper to attend a JC for a year or so and then transfer to a State/Uni correct?
 
would have had more of an effect if he came in with multiple handtruck loads worth of rolls of pennies.


hmmm I wonder if one would even be able to load up 28k rolls of pennies into the back of one of the larger sized pick ups
 
blgdinger said:
Oh boohoo, that's what you get for going out of state. It's a known fact that in-state is cheaper than going elsewhere. Article void.

protip: My tuition this semester is about $3,600 and I'm taking 5 classes...
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i know seriously
this is like buying a 6 figure car and then crying about the high maintenance costs
 
College tuition is getting to the point that mainstream news sources are even publishing articles questioning whether getting a college degree is worth it to some. This may seem like a no-brainer to many, but getting a degree has always been the blanket advice for everyone.
 
My in state tuition cost 22k a semester.
Then I graduated and now I make tons of money. Overall ill say worth it.
 
My Tuition is a flate rate. I can take 12hrs or 20hrs and it would still be the same which is about 10k a year. Not bad at all.
 
blgdinger said:
Oh boohoo, that's what you get for going out of state. It's a known fact that in-state is cheaper than going elsewhere. Article void.

protip: My tuition this semester is about $3,600 and I'm taking 5 classes...
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You do realize that not all states have good in state schools, right? :rolleyes:
 
WozniakMac said:
Wait till you get in Graduate School and then a Doctorate. That's where all my money went. We had to pay monthly payments that were more than our house just to pay for mine and my wifes Graduate school.
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THIS. This is from my university's mba program:

Exact cost figures will be provided by the USC Marshall Executive MBA Program Office to students during the summer before classes begin. The approximate overall cost of the program is $112,000
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21-month program = $5,333 A MONTH.
 
Why do I now have the craving to go withdraw a few hundred dollars in ones?
 
WozniakMac said:
Wait till you get in Graduate School and then a Doctorate. That's where all my money went. We had to pay monthly payments that were more than our house just to pay for mine and my wifes Graduate school.
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crazjayz said:
THIS. This is from my university's mba program:

21-month program = $5,333 A MONTH.
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There's the problem. MBA. My doctorate in chemistry didn't cost me a dime. If you go into graduate school in the sciences most of the time you don't have to pay tuition (since you are working for the Man). However with the rate science jobs are moving off shore, it would be hard for me to recommend a similar path to my kids unless things change.
 
1963 my gramps paid cash for a new car w/small bills, ones, fives, tens & twenties. W/tax & lic, was right around the $2,300 mark. The dealership spent over an hour counting & recounting the bills before giving it up. Wonder how long this kid was delayed.
 
haha, that is genius. I've paid for things in 1's before, but never that much money.
 
HighYield said:
There's the problem. MBA. My doctorate in chemistry didn't cost me a dime. If you go into graduate school in the sciences most of the time you don't have to pay tuition (since you are working for the Man). However with the rate science jobs are moving off shore, it would be hard for me to recommend a similar path to my kids unless things change.
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This is true. Almost all my friends in Ph.D. programs have actually paid stipends and free tuition.

But not to belittle or be condescending, but if you look at the professional graduate degrees (MD, MBA, JD) it's a completely different story. You're talking somewhere around $30k per semester for any of these at a tier 1/2 university.
 
It was cheaper for me to go to a state university out of state as a non resident than it was for me to stay home and go to a state school nearby.

Yay for scholarships. And the demand at the time for high value nuclear engineering students. Department enrollment was 40ish when I started, undergrad + grad. Now its over 200. Potential for the market to get flooded, a la the IT industry.
 
Shambler said:
It is still cheaper to attend a JC for a year or so and then transfer to a State/Uni correct?
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I don't fully agree with that. If you know what degree you're going to get, then yes, it may be cheaper. However, one may end up needing to take freshman & sophomore classes within your major once at the Univ. In that case, you still need to take the classes in sequence and it's not possible to finish in 2 additional years.

Then, it's more expensive.
 
sfsuphysics said:
...... Where was the push to pay more taxes so that your state had a decent higher education system so your child didn't have to go to another state? Now that you're footing the bill, its all of a sudden inconvenient to pay for school...
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Another pro-tip:
Throwing money at a school system doesn't fix it.

On a related note, regardless of in-state or out-of-state, schools prefer the tuition process because the money goes directly to the school.
Money from taxes goes through the entire state financial infrastructure, with stops (and drops) at every fiscal department on the way.
 
gathagan said:
Another pro-tip:
Throwing money at a school system doesn't fix it.

On a related note, regardless of in-state or out-of-state, schools prefer the tuition process because the money goes directly to the school.
Money from taxes goes through the entire state financial infrastructure, with stops (and drops) at every fiscal department on the way.
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No it doesn't fix it, however I did acknowledge there are quite a bit of waste issues involved. However what it does do is hopefully keep tuition rates lower so more people can go.

As fucked up as California's budget has fallen, one thing they did a long time ago is make a pledge to education to make it affordable. However due to the budget the education aspect has been hacked, rehacked, and super-hacked so now its not as affordable. 10-15 years ago when I was in school, Community college cost me $10/unit (1 lecture = 3 units), and State University cost me something like $1000 a semester, grad school was free because I went for physics and they paid me money to be their slave :D A quick look now community colleges are $26/unit (still pretty damn cheap), state school is about $2200/semester and well we won't go into the UC system like Berkeley because they're ass hats who want to become private so they can charge more.
 
blgdinger said:
Oh boohoo, that's what you get for going out of state. It's a known fact that in-state is cheaper than going elsewhere. Article void.

protip: My tuition this semester is about $3,600 and I'm taking 5 classes...
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You realize you're not really paying for your schooling, don't you.
 
Meanwhile in a civilized country..
"Wanna study at uni/college levels? Sure, come on in, if you need money to be able to afford studying a government agency can give you a combination of loans and funding you can pay off monthly once you land a job"
 
What conversation does this guy want to start? How expensive universities are vs. the actual level of education you get. Consider this article and then overlay how much this kid paid for his tuition for a year.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/01/18/106949/study-many-college-students-not.html

Then multiply that by the millions of students out there, along with their parents that are going through the same thing and you can start to see what sort of scam higher education is becoming. Be smart. Hit a community college for 2 years for your general ed, then transfer to a university for the other remaining 2 years of your undergrad. Then go to work if you can. You've basically saved 2 years of major tuition.
 
I was in college from 99 - 03. Private college, first year $22K a year, by my last was up to about $26

Want to bitch that $14k a year is expensive? there were cheaper schools for him to pick and more expensive ones. I dont' care if the cheaper ones where shit, they were still cheaper.
 
My tuition is $5,000 / semester in state. At 17 one-hour credits per each eighteen-week semester, that works out to $16 / hour. I consider it very fair.

HighYield said:
There's the problem. MBA. My doctorate in chemistry didn't cost me a dime. If you go into graduate school in the sciences most of the time you don't have to pay tuition (since you are working for the Man). However with the rate science jobs are moving off shore, it would be hard for me to recommend a similar path to my kids unless things change.
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What? Manufacturing jobs are the ones moving off shore. What kind of job would you recommend to your kids?

Methadras said:
What conversation does this guy want to start? How expensive universities are vs. the actual level of education you get. Consider this article and then overlay how much this kid paid for his tuition for a year.
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That's not necessarily the schools' faults. Seeing this quote from the article:

After four years, 36 percent showed no significant gains in these so-called "higher order" thinking skills.
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In my experience, 36% of college students are not really there for an education.
 
I went to school with a guy that did this many years agao when tuition was only like $25 a credit hour. So for two classes if you had no assistance you would only pay $200 plus lab fees and taxes and what not. Anyway, they made a policy the next semester that anyone who held up the line with excessive change would be billed a counting fee, and they put plackards up at the casheer stating the change in policy. That was only $200 and some change in singles.

The biggest problem with colleges is that what they charge does not always indicate the quality of the education they adminster. I have attended three colleges a community college, a state university, and a private (for proffit) university. There were many times where the teachers at the much cheaper community college were far better than either of the universities. Don't get me wrong, there were good instructors at all three but I can tell you that my experience at the community college was far superior to the other two at about 1/4 of the price.
 
HOCP4ME said:
....What? Manufacturing jobs are the ones moving off shore. What kind of job would you recommend to your kids?
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You'd be surprised. Manufacturing jobs aren't the only jobs moving off shore. Research in the pharmaceutical area is moving to China and India as fast as possible right now. Tens of thousands of jobs in the biology and chemistry areas have been cut very recently.
As for my kids, they are only 7, 7 and 1. I'll need to see what they show interest in before I make any career suggestions for them :)
 
HighYield said:
There's the problem. MBA. My doctorate in chemistry didn't cost me a dime. If you go into graduate school in the sciences most of the time you don't have to pay tuition (since you are working for the Man). However with the rate science jobs are moving off shore, it would be hard for me to recommend a similar path to my kids unless things change.
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My wife is applying for a local PhD program in the Arts to get us a bit of extra cash while she studies something she enjoys.
 
haha

this reminds me of a video i saw of someone who paid to get his car out of impound......... in pennies.

14000 pennies. or somewhere around that amount
 
WozniakMac said:
Wait till you get in Graduate School and then a Doctorate. That's where all my money went. We had to pay monthly payments that were more than our house just to pay for mine and my wifes Graduate school.
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You should've gone into physics.

They pay ME.
 
It got this ridiculous electric bill of like $650 one summer and they were threatening to turn the power off so I paid the entire bill in pennies back about 15 years ago. My bill have been more reasonable since then :D
 
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