re: Informative read about Auburn from the Wall Street Journal $$$

A lot lot lot lot lot

Haha

I will also add Bama is much faster in response to scholarship applications. Bama just for a general academic excellence scholarship turn around was about 1.5 months. Still waiting on Auburns response and that’s been 4 months ago

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oes anybody know a golden ticket job that doesnt require calculus or rocket science?

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Accounting is pretty basic on the entry level side of it and pays well after a few years of grinding and moving firms. Easy to find a job as there are always firms looking to hire. basic Algebra, not calculus required

First year out of college makes around 50-55k. Two years experience gets ya to 60-70 once you switch firms. Bout as close to an easy golden ticket as you can get.

I will give this advice to younger parents on here for planning. Next fall will be my 3rd child I send off to college.

First I’m not a huge fan of the 529 plan. If you are go for it.

GPA is huge. Test scores are huge. Have them start practicing and preparing for the ACT even in the 9th grade by doing online practice test.

If you’re high school overs dual enrollment with a community college do it. It’s cheap and fairly easy to knock out a couple first year courses. Like 101 and 102 English and 101 and 102 history.

Start looking into scholarships in your students junior year.

Have your student do many things outside of the school to build their resume. Volunteer work, working with the local city government be a well rounded person essentially.

Save 24-25k to give to your student for expenses over the course of their 4 years. They can give themselves a $500/month allowance so you know they don’t starve to death like I did in school lol.

AP classes in high school are a good option as well but if you don’t pass the test you don’t get the college credit.

They’re not at Auburn

Jang unless you take some dumbass degree a solid degree in most fields from AU almost assures you upper middle class income. Stay away from social work unless you are going to be a psychiatrist. Teachers in general starting out pay is still a little low. Obviously for AU if you are going to be poultry or beef farmer there will be investments the grad has to make for land and getting started but a lot of those folks offer assistance and advice to large farms and get paid by them until they get their own established. Go for passion and happiness over what you think your top pay would be

Most of these paywall sites can be bypassed by using the “reader” function FYI.

The part that really shocked me was a 15 million dollar renovation to the presidents house. What are you doing to it that could possibly cost 15 million?

I was lucky. Both of my kids got scholarships that covered the majority of the tuition. I paid living expenses out of pocket. No student debt at graduation. Engineering for my son. Nursing for my daughter. Both had great offers upon graduation and are doing well. The advice about test scores and GPA were huge in getting the scholarships.

In my first year at Auburn, I paid $100 for tuition.

Bottom line is all these amenities cost money. If people were forced to love in rat hole dorms, they would bitch. When they build something nice they bitch about tuition increases. You can't win.

I am not sure what the point of the article was, tbh. College coats money. We either pay for it through tuition or go the European route and have "free college" paid by high taxes. Also, what they dont tell you about the "free" Euro model is it is much harder to get accepted over there. Few people attend college there relative to the U.S.