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daesonesb wrote:I just got my fin aid ePAL letter from UCLA.

They've estimated me @ $70,000 in gradplus and stafford loans.
I'm about to shit my pants in fear.

Fear? Or motivation to do well in law school and land a high paying gig? Market rate still happens for some people at UCLA, even in the bad times! (mild sarcasm of course)

Yeah, go ahead and gamble away your financial future for a 20 % chance that you can pay it back (note pay back, not get rich) within a reasonable amount of time. Sounds like a plan to me.

dfs

daesonesb wrote:I just got my fin aid ePAL letter from UCLA.

They've estimated me @ $70,000 in gradplus and stafford loans.
I'm about to shit my pants in fear.

Per year or total?

Total not so bad.

Per Year is

$70k in loans for one year? Good God, man, you can't be serious.

One year.

daesonesb wrote:One year.

EDIT: 2010-2011 tuition and fees are 50K out of state.

if its 50k out of state you may need more that 70k to live in westwood for a year.

beesknees wrote:$70k in loans for one year? Good God, man, you can't be serious.

twert wrote:

daesonesb wrote:One year.

EDIT: 2010-2011 tuition and fees are 50K out of state.

if its 50k out of state you may need more that 70k to live in westwood for a year.

Granted, but the COL is estimated 20k

daesonesb wrote:One year.

EDIT: 2010-2011 tuition and fees are 50K out of state.

Umm, have you tried negotiating for some merit aid?

[quote="CyLaw"][quote="daesonesb"]One year.

You can't seriously be considering paying 70K a year...

don't go to ucla! unless u get some serious funding...it is not worth 70K...especially in this economy, and until my 3L friends start getting jobs who attend T-6 schools....no school is worth sticker unless it is HYS.

Damn, and I think in-state is reaching 50k by 3L year too.

210k debt + interest? Not worth it. Some top 10s at sticker price cost over 40k LESS than that, including COL.

Yeah,

Wow man, 50k a year?

The UC system is like a sinking ship that's trying to bail out by drilling a hole in the bottom to let the water out.

MTal wrote:Yeah, go ahead and gamble away your financial future for a 20 % chance that you can pay it back (note pay back, not get rich) within a reasonable amount of time. Sounds like a plan to me.

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try it sometime MTal, you'd be doing the world a favor

lawduder wrote:

MTal wrote:Yeah, go ahead and gamble away your financial future for a 20 % chance that you can pay it back (note pay back, not get rich) within a reasonable amount of time. Sounds like a plan to me.

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try it sometime MTal, you'd be doing the world a favor

The majority of posters in this thread agree with me.

You are kinda bein a dick about it though. I really wanted to go to UCLA.

daesonesb wrote:

CyLaw wrote:

daesonesb wrote:One year.

EDIT: 2010-2011 tuition and fees are 50K out of state.

Umm, have you tried negotiating for some merit aid?

I'm gonna try monday.
I got into Cornell, that's gotta be worth a bit in negotiating.
I'll also go hunting for private party scholarships. Ask them to reconsider my Need aid (mom's a doctor, dads a prof, I get none).

Can you just go to Cornell and save yourself the effort? 70k a year is retarded. Guess how much you'll pay over a ten year repayment plan. Assuming you break the top 33% and can actually pay this off in 10 years.

Ready?
~$298,000

That's a pretty big house in some areas. Do you really want to stay in Cali that bad?

erniesto wrote:

daesonesb wrote:

CyLaw wrote:

daesonesb wrote:One year.

EDIT: 2010-2011 tuition and fees are 50K out of state.

Umm, have you tried negotiating for some merit aid?

I'm gonna try monday.
I got into Cornell, that's gotta be worth a bit in negotiating.
I'll also go hunting for private party scholarships. Ask them to reconsider my Need aid (mom's a doctor, dads a prof, I get none).

Can you just go to Cornell and save yourself the effort? 70k a year is retarded. Guess how much you'll pay over a ten year repayment plan. Assuming you break the top 33% and can actually pay this off in 10 years.

Ready?
~$298,000

That's a pretty big house in some areas. Do you really want to stay in Cali that bad?

Going to Cornell with no aid there either will cost, $69,750 a year. So not much better.

Really? Didn't know Ithaca was so expensive. That's still cheaper than a lower ranked school.

erniesto wrote:Really? Didn't know Ithaca was so expensive. That's still cheaper than a lower ranked school.

I believe Cornell's the second most expensive school tuition-wise out of the t-14, behind Berkeley for OOS. (Columbia, NYU are also ~70 per year, due to high COL though.)

fortissimo wrote:

erniesto wrote:Really? Didn't know Ithaca was so expensive. That's still cheaper than a lower ranked school.

I believe Cornell's the second most expensive school tuition-wise out of the t-14, behind Berkeley for OOS. (Columbia, NYU are also ~70 per year due to high COL.)

Yeah. the tuition alone for Cornell is $51,150