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Agreed but the host of smaller concerns that dominate high school college choice advice (eg pick a place you feel you fit in, yadda yadda) make a lot more sense
by helen___keller 7y ago
Agreed but the host of smaller concerns that dominate high school college choice advice (eg pick a place you feel you fit in, yadda yadda) make a lot more sense if your debt is a tiny fraction of your future income.
FWIW I went to CMU (non-CS) for some squishy reason, like it "felt right". I realized I needed a better degree for taking on 30k debt partway through freshman year and transferred to CS.
The education was rock solid. If anything it was too good - I spent so much time learning and working that I did very little else.
Debt has not really been a concern post graduation, compared to cost of buying a house where I want to live it's barely worth mentioning.
- akhilcacharya 7y ago> I spent so much time learning and working that I did very little else Funny, I did the same thing (+ applying for internships/jobs/research) and had zero debt and 4 internships under my belt. And yet...I only got into 2 state schools (my safeties) and went to the easier one. I guess I'm not as good because I couldn't get into a CMU-tier school?
- helen___keller 7y ago> I guess I'm not as good because I couldn't get into a CMU-tier school? That's not my suggestion, any I'm sorry if you took my post that way.
- akhilcacharya 7y agoI'm not sure what your suggestion is then? I don't see why people would choose to go to the effort if they didn't see that way.