How the Recession Is Changing Students' College Plans

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I'm starting a stream of videos about being a college student in a recession check the first one out on Youtube. More to come!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zw3eK4LVG-U

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temp soma of OK 8:17AM July 04, 2009

Your college education is what YOU make of it - no matter what school you attend. I have had 3 Fortune 500 co-ops and I attend a state university, not a $50,000/yr private institution.
Keep up your grades!
Be proactive about your internship!
and you'll save a crap load and still manage to get just as an amazing of a career!

adk of CA 1:53PM May 11, 2009

I can vouch from life experience. I made the mistake of not discovering regional branches or community colleges till 1 year after I enrolled in main campus. I could have been saving from the get go. In Ohio, through the Board of Regents - there is a very direct, straightforward plan for transfers from community colleges and regional branches of public universities to the main campus of public universities. The guides do not take Advanced Physics to understand. Plus as I am reading up for my brother to start college this upcoming fall - so, he has a chance to learn from my mistakes - there are scholarship programs for main campus encouraging regional branch students to transfer to main. They would actually amount to much more than a freshman scholarship if he had decided to go straight to main from high school. All the state universities in the area have lists of transfer scholarships for incoming community college transfers. It can be a 2nd chance at your high school GPA.
I made the mistake of not exactly knowing what I wanted to do with the limitless options of majors for young students to decide from when they do not even know where to begin - this is where schools profit from undecided majors so they can suck you in and make money till you decide what you want to do the rest of your life that will a) make you happy and b) give you enough of a salary to pay back your OUTSTANDING COLLEGE DEBT if you don't have anyone helping you front the bill - especially not the government would help me because I didn't make enough to take a 3rd of my wages to cover school unless I want to starve and told me I made too much to give me any assistance but sure enough - piled up the loans on me.
I have been attending school 6 years - I will finally be graduating after trial and error. To anyone reading this - I recommend your child know what they want to know for the rest of their life (if that's possible at 18) before you start lining the university's pocket with your hard earned money.
In those 6 years - working full-time all of them from my freshman year on - Oh my! - I have never had the chance to sit on my behind and go to classes without the stress of work and supporting myself. And out of all those 6 years, I never once visited a "Spring Break Hot Spot" and i'm still standing. Times are rough, but seriously, I am sure the student will live if they don't get to party it up on the beach. Are they not in college for the purpose of studying, not drinking it up in Florida, after all?

Gabrielle Zwilling of OH 1:47PM May 11, 2009

How much is a college education really worth? A degree, debt and no job. We found that while we saved plenty it was not enough. We have an average American income but only qualify for unsubsidized loans - meaning they accrue interest while the student is in school. Isn't debt what has gotten this nation in so much trouble? I don't mind subsidizing the truly poor but I resent paying for those who work the system at the expense of my child who would graduate with huge debt while their children get to go to a four year university practically free. I do know two families that are doing this and now I'm angry... We played the game and we lost. Our children in the end will attend a local community college and save thousands of dollars with the hope of working the transfer maze mentioned above to a four year university. I cringe at the thought of doing this wrong and in the end incurring even more cost. I resent that they think that I as the parent should also take out huge debt as well; particularly when our retirement accounts are tanking. Debt forever in this country.....not my kids if I have to die for them to inherit my life insurance...oops, even that would not be enough to cover college for one let alone two!!

dak of CA 7:20PM May 05, 2009

The recession has also changed the way students travel for their spring break. According to this survey more and more are steering away from traveling to a party spot and instead opting to go home, work or volunteer. http://edu.stuvu.com/2009/04/new-economy-means-new-plans-for-college-spring-breakers/

Griff of CA 11:43PM April 22, 2009

With the downturn in the economy, community colleges are becoming more important than ever. But when it comes to transferring from a community college to a four-year college or university, what you don’t know can hurt you. It is a lot more complex transferring from a community college than it is going directly from high school. If you don't know how to avoid the community college coursework pitfalls, you could end up staying an extra year or two at a four-year college or university. That could cost you $40,000 or more. Bottom line, to get where you want to go, you’ll need to plan and navigate your way through a maze of transfer requirements and application procedures. The key is to have the right information and a transfer plan that will keep you on course. Or else, as Hall of Fame catcher Yogi Berra once said, ‘If you don’t know where you’re going, you’ll end up someplace else."
Don Silver
Author of the Community College Transfer Guide

Don Silver of CA 6:49PM April 16, 2009