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[Ninaroja]

From what I have gathered, the pressure put on people surrounding college is infinitely more in the US than in the UK. For one, my parents didn't have to save from the moment I was born to pay for it, and I wasn't under pressure to get a scholarship of some sort to make it easier to pay for. I got to choose my own course and where to do it, and once I have my degree, I have a clear advantage over people who don't have them in the job market. Student loans are interest-free and I only have to pay it back a little bit at a time once I am earning a certain amount per year.

Is America not like that?

[AnimeFan101]

Who knows....

[Carl]

From what I have gathered, the pressure put on people surrounding college is infinitely more in the US than in the UK. For one, my parents didn't have to save from the moment I was born to pay for it, and I wasn't under pressure to get a scholarship of some sort to make it easier to pay for. I got to choose my own course and where to do it, and once I have my degree, I have a clear advantage over people who don't have them in the job market. Student loans are interest-free and I only have to pay it back a little bit at a time once I am earning a certain amount per year.

Is America not like that?

No, it isn't. My loans weren't supposed to start accruing interest until 6 months after I graduate, but they have already begun building it up. Additionally, if I hadn't made such excellent grades in regular school I wouldn't have been able to attend uni at all because my family can't afford to repay any loans, I really don't know how I'm going to pay the ones I've got, much less if I had had a whole 4 years of loans to pay off. And the way the economy's gone you almost have to have a degree from a university to get any half decent job at all, and it may not be something in your field of study.

[FireAndSun]

College is just too inhumanly expensive these days. I'm just going to go to community college for about 2 years then transfer to cut down on costs.

[Carl]

Community colleges have a really bad rap. Not saying don't do it, I've never been to one, but my professors look down on them heavily, apparently straight A students from community colleges tend to be C/D students when they transfer to my university, or at least the English majors do.

[FireAndSun]

There's no way I'm going to be able to afford a 4-year-university. The prices are through the roof expensive. I don't think a university will accept me with my high school grades, anyway. My counselor told me that I could at least improve my grades in community college.

[Carl]

That may be so. I don't know a lot about community colleges, just what I've heard from professors. If it weren't for scholarships and the Pell Grant, I'd not have been able to go to uni so I get it.

[FireAndSun]

Community colleges definitely aren't looked as highly upon as universities, but I see it as my only option to even have a chance of getting into a university.

[AnimeFan101]

huh?

[Ninaroja]

From what I have gathered, the pressure put on people surrounding college is infinitely more in the US than in the UK. For one, my parents didn't have to save from the moment I was born to pay for it, and I wasn't under pressure to get a scholarship of some sort to make it easier to pay for. I got to choose my own course and where to do it, and once I have my degree, I have a clear advantage over people who don't have them in the job market. Student loans are interest-free and I only have to pay it back a little bit at a time once I am earning a certain amount per year.

Is America not like that?

No, it isn't. My loans weren't supposed to start accruing interest until 6 months after I graduate, but they have already begun building it up. Additionally, if I hadn't made such excellent grades in regular school I wouldn't have been able to attend uni at all because my family can't afford to repay any loans, I really don't know how I'm going to pay the ones I've got, much less if I had had a whole 4 years of loans to pay off. And the way the economy's gone you almost have to have a degree from a university to get any half decent job at all, and it may not be something in your field of study.

God, that sounds awful