My Ex Doesn't Want Our Daughter To Go To Community College!
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I went to a cheap community college for my RN program, and then the hospital paid for my RN to BSN program.
I make 150k annually and I am debt free. :)
How do you make 150k as an RN
@@TubOfSun I work as a Travel nurse in CA. They pay for housing, rental car, food and gas as well.
You did it man! Good on you!
@@TubOfSun Why cannot he make 150k? Just because your earning is terrible, doesn't mean everyone has to follow your standard. He is debt free and 150k in wages. How much money do you earn? How much do you have saved?
@@Clipahoy and why can Triangle NOT ask a question? You're getting awfully defensive when an innocent question wasn't even aimed towards you. Besides the very first reply mentioned how they were able to do it. I personally would've never thought an RN would make that much either
My mom had no money to pay for my school but she had ambition. We saved every penny we had. She told me community college was the way and I listened. After applying for scholarships and hard work I graduated as an RN at 23 yrs old DEBT FREE while working a part-time job. Now I take my mom to nice dinners while I make good money. Also, my hospital pays for my BSN - again, debt free! Let me talk some sense to your daughter! I’ll be happy to!
Awesome! Way to go!!!
I am a physician, and there's so much need for nurses everywhere that it doesn't matter at all where you graduate from. I have NEVER EVER asked a nurse where they have graduated from. It would be such a waste of money to go to a more expensive school.
The mom probably just wanted to brag to her friends about her kid getting into a prestigious university.
🙄 Such sophomoric logic, it's unbelievable. But you're probably right, that's the mother's reason.
Plus, she can stick it to the girl's dad.
This is ALL it was about. So many students in college get nagged by the parents wanting to brag. Very common theme at UC and most schools.
Nah she’s wants her ex husband to end up broke
Imagine getting a full ride through community college thanks to your dad AND your step-mom... but your biological mom is tempting you into expensive schools and a giant student loan. WILD!!!
Corruption of a minor should be expanded to cover situations like these.
Imagine being an American, and you cannot put your child through University education. What a joke.
Because the mom wants the control. It’s never about the quality, brand of the school. She is using the daughter to attack the ex.
And I have no doubt the ex-wife knows that community college is the right decision but she's using this as a pawn to get at the ex.
Expensive school = future rich husband for her daughter = he pays the student loans and helps the mother in law...
This is how her mother is thinking
My friends thought I was crazy to go to a community college straight out of high school, even though I had the grades to go to a really good university. Got my associates for basically free (I think I paid $1k in tuition out of pocket) and then transferred to a state school. Got my BS with only $14k in loans, and paid those back before my first scheduled payment. All this propaganda going around saying that "community college is for poor people and rejects" is designed to keep people in debt.
🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌 Thank you!
I wish I had read your comment 20 years ago, through some kind of time machine. It would have saved me much grief.
I’ve been under the care of a lot of great RNs in my life. I never once asked where any of them went to nursing school.
I went to community college first and finished my RN with 7k in loans. I paid out of pocket for the prerequisite stage using a payment plan. I had 9.50/hr job. I took loans for the program part so I could focus on school. Cleared the loan first year as a nurse then did my bachelor's online for 10k out of pocket. That was easy with RN pay. I fail to understand when my coworkers tell me they have 60k student loans .
There aren't many jobs that care if you went to expensive schools or CC. Glad you got there the cheap way.
Did pretty much the same, but with social work. Our culture has normalized paying off a surplus of student loans for a "traditional college experience"
Liar
Han West :fine by me if they do it that way. But don’t cry about the loans once you take them🤪
I went to a high quality out of state private university and my tuition was around 2k per semester…
Our son went to a community college for his degree to become an x-ray tech. His Mom and I paid his tuition , but required him to pay for his books and lab fees.....for which he got a part time job washing dishes to pay for them. Four years later he graduated with zero debt!...A great way to start out your adult life.....a radiology degree with zero debt.
I got both my associates and bachelors from community colleges in X-ray and Ct, definitely good very in demand jobs.
Most hospitals have programs the help pay for school. She could also get all or part of her community collage covered that way if she gets a job at the right hospital working as a CNA. Then maybe dad could help fund a Roth IRA with the money saved.
@@margaretf6147 mine did but it’s not 100%, they paid a certain cash amount depending on years of service to the hospital and your employment status ie full time, part time etc.
@@kylequintana Which community college offers a full Bachelors degree, may I ask?
@@mathisnotforthefaintofheart I live in Colorado and several here offer them. Such as pikes peak community college and Pueblo community college, they are limited to several fields though. Ie….nursing, respiratory therapy, advanced paramedic and radiology.
No-get her to talk to a 27 year old RN graduate in student debt…that girl will talk more sense into her than a 50 year old
RN here (32 years) take my advice- don’t go in debt for your degree!!! Dave is 100% right!!
Agreed. I paid for nursing degree as I went. I graduated debt free.
Couldn’t imagine taking a plunge into debt just for granny to swing at you and flirt with you all in the same sentence
She can go to a community college and get her LPN work as such and finish her college at a university to get her degree in nursing in 2 years with a lot less debt and so much experience
There’s absolutely nothing wrong with a CC. Both my girls went that route and then transferred to Baylor University, which is $70k a year. You can save SO much money by going to a CC first.
Do you have connections at Baylor?
70k?!?!
Yeah. If I could do it over again, I would do community college (granted I went to a state university so it was still reasonable).
They should have went to UT Arlington, which is a Tier One University. Much more beautiful than the flag ship and less expensive.
How much money are they making now?
I started out at a community college, and ultimately earned a PhD from a Big Ten university. You are not missing out on life by attending a community college. It instead gave me a solid foundation for the rest of my education.
Especially for nursing! Local colleges is more than enough. No need for expensive private college! Teaching is exactly the same!
The hospitals in my area now don’t hire nurses unless they have a bachelor’s of science degree. UCLA and Dignity Health.
As a teacher, couldn’t understand why someone went to an expensive college to make so little money in the 90s.
@GenX X You can do the bachelors portion online. It’s easy and will only run you like 10k or so. The rest can all be done at a community college
@@genxx2724 usually they will accept with an associates but then you have to finish it within x amount of time. Thats how iit is here in Michigan at least.
@@genxx2724 So you do two years at cc and transfer to a four year school afterwards.
I work at a community a college in Tennessee and help students receive the Tennessee Promise scholarship. Between the Federal Pell Grant, HOPE Scholarship, and Tennessee Promise, students in Tennessee have the ability to attend community college tuition free if they meet all requirements and meet all the deadlines. Most of our students transfer to the major state university right down the road and continue on to receive their bachelors. Community colleges have a negative stigma attached to them, but they are a very smart financial decision.
I got my associates degree at a community college and then transferred to a state university for my bachelors. I graduated with 15k in loans, and thankfully was able to pay it off within a year. I am so glad that I chose that route, as most of my fellow classmates who went straight to a 4-year university graduated with over 50k in loans. I don't understand why community college is looked down upon. It's a great, cheaper option. Most people I know took the same prerequisites as me but just paid double (some even triple) just to get the "college experience".
Community College was a godsend for me. I went two years to Community College, and then transferred to University with 80% of my tuition loan paid upon graduation. I would not have been able to do this all four years at University.
Yes, have a working RN explain nursing to her. I am a retired RN and have seen so many kids go through nursing programs of all sorts. First you get the associate nursing degree (ADN) from the community college. Then you take your RN board exam and pass. Then you get a job as a RN. Next, if you want it, you have the hospital pay for your tuition while you work for them as a RN, and you get a BSN. Nursing is so versatile and you have no need or incentive to rack up debt if you are smart and willing to work hard.
My daughter wanted to be a nurse once. I recomended that after High School she work as a caregiver for a few days a week to get her foot in the door of the industry, become a CNA next year, decide where she wanted to go to college after that. She found a job real quickly after getting CPR certified. The job she liked... but her coworkers... well the older ones she was close with, but the younger ones the ones more in her age range... while they were good at their jobs they weren't very good at teaching her, they never said she did anything wrong during training, even when she asked and she did ask. Instead they reported her to the managment where she was pulled into the office and talked to. This happened apparently two more times, despite her pulling one aside and asking if there was anything she could improve on, "No, I don't think so". She was called into the office again reported for concerns on her training brought by that very same person even management seemed to be confused when that was brought up. My daughter quit within three weeks and thereafter refused to work in "young female dominated" career paths. I know this isn't really on topic but you comment just reminded me of it.
@@juliancain3872 You offered your daughter wise counsel and I am also not surprised at her difficulties. Better that she experienced nursing care problems at this level before she invested money and time in a career she would end up hating. Nursing is very difficult and there are more emotional pitfalls than you can imagine. You are smack dab in the middle of conflicts with administration at every level, doctors and their egos, co-worker tensions and sabotage, and patient/family problems. You have to either be a bit if a doormat or run for the hills. I only recommend nursing to those who feel called to it as their vocation in life. It has been mine all along since early childhood.
The ex is tripping!! Dad is doing the right thing.
She’s doing it purposely toget back at her ex cause he’s happy and has a new family. Trust !
Take it from a RN with a BSN from a college. I am 40 and I owe a lot of student loans for it. I lived in a state at the time that did not offer an associate degree. When I finished they finally did. But after getting my license and moving to another state started to work as an RN. I have the past 10 years watching Associate Degree nurses making as much as me and then going back to get their BSN. I managed to injure my back that has put me out of floor nursing. All the while owing all these student loans. The smarter way to get your RN is the community college. Then if you want to get your BSN, get it later. Most of these hospitals pay tuition reimbursement. She could get her Degree free between her dad and tuition reimbursement from her job. Don’t go the big college route.
If your back keeps you giving issues, can you at some point join a community college for teaching nursing students? It might be easier physically.
@@mathisnotforthefaintofheart you have to get your master’s
@@ricana1160 That is indeed true.
My wife’s an RN. She got her LPN and RN at a community college, then the hospital she works with paid her to get her BSN at an online school. I can promise you no one has asked her where she got her degree.
Starting at a technical college was one of the best decisions I/my parents made. Saved so much money but also learned way more because I was hands on, I was way ahead of my peers when I transferred to a traditional undergrad.
If she has the conversation with the nurse and refuses to listen you as a parent are not responsible for that child’s decision at that point. The money you have saved is for a particular type of schooling I would not give a single dime to her if she is going to go the route of debt I know it’s gonna hurt but it’s better she learned her lesson now
way to controlling got to let kids make their own decisions even if it differs from the decision you would make. trying to control your kids through money causes resentment and theyll distance themselves from you
I’m starting my second year of community college and tbh it’s worth it and the best decision I made, I live in a big city and still have a lot of fun and I’m getting my degree for half off
Where you have no responsibility, you should have no opinion. Mom needs to fork over some money towards her college fund or keep quiet.
I’m a RN of 33 years. I went to an ADN program and had zero debt when I got out. I make six figures in a professional nursing job.
An RN license is the same if it comes from an ADN program or a 4 year program. How do I know this??? I’ve been a nurse for 23 years and my dtr just finished her associates and is an RN who graduated with NO student debt and one year out of school is already clinical lead of her dept. This is the best advice Dave ever gave -talk with a long term RN. It’s a no go for a big dreamy degree. Since the callers dtr is a CNA, have her work as a CNA and get the real talk from her co-workers
You tell her no student loans. If she goes, she's on her own. And you do not sign any parent plus loans, guarantee the loan etc......if she wants you to pay for the degree she goes to the CC. Simple. Put your foot down....it's your money not hers
no parent should ever sign lol
My poor mother was like this mom. She wanted to be able to brag to others that I was going to a great university. She frowned upon and stuck hEr nose up community college. My parents had the $ for community college and I graduated hs with a 3.8 GPA.
She didn’t hav the $ for university and dorm but promised me that she would pay for my bachelors. Took out parent plus loans and without my knowledge took out a loan in my name. 2 years later she got a divorce from my dad and fell on hard times. Several years later I had to pay the loan back in my name and I resented her so much.
I went to University of Colorado and got a degree in environmental studies. That degree ended up being worthless because most places want a masters or a doctorate. I went back to school at the community college and now I’m projected to make $165,000 after taxes with a 2 year degree in healthcare.
I own 12 watches, including a Rolex, Breitling, Omega, and Tag Heuer
Some are much more expensive than others
What do they all have in common?
They tell time...
Same goes with Colleges/Universities
You still get that piece of paper
Wrong. A Fortune 500 company is going to hire a Stanford grad over Iowa State grad.
@@teeduck yeah...
That's what I thought, wannabe recruiter
@@teeduckonly in law or high finance, in 90% of degrees it doesn’t matter what school you graduate from
@@tristiandavis6852 Not sure of the percentage. But when I needed surgery, I chose the UCLA Medical school grad over someone who went overseas.
My aunt did self-study for RN, then went up to NY to take the tests and passed. Transferred it to her own state. No issue for her and had a great career.
Can you do that lol? Can you just study some books and then take the test? If so that’s awesome
@@charlesg7926 thats what school is.
@@gamingsaint6238 its what school is supposed to be. all it really is is accreditation.
@@jimbragu Nurses need to have practical experience. Do you really want to be coding in the ER and have an R.N. who has only book knowledge? She wouldn’t even have experience with the machines or starting an I.V. 🙄
You have to get clinical experience in order to become an rn.
No idea why community college is stigmatized. It has the SAME creditation ans certifications as a university. Only difference is that University colleges say you have a privilege of attending there and tell you that it's a privilege to give them insane amounts of money for the exact same stuff a CC gives you.
That's right. Their local college of registered nurses don't care where you got their education from, as long as you pass their exams.
@@cgasucks I can attest to that. I failed Nursing school at my CC but my friends who graduated are now making lots of money because they earned their BSN's from the same college.
Sigh, because there's zero "status points " associated with CC and that's all kids care about it seems 🙄
Cause they don't sell stickers you can put on the back window of your car telling the world you went to some fancy school...............
Cause these spoiled kids look down on CCs as a "poor" school
Yet one of those jagoffs served me ice cream years later and was astonished to see me driving a 911 Turbski while he still drove the same Jetta he got as a gift in HS
I went to a CC and it was a steal, even for 1984-86. My first semester's tuition AND books ran me $250 total. Sure, no way you can get that deal today, but another selling point was that I got a sound education in the core subjects, taught by professors who were in the classroom, not off doing "research" so they could publish, not perish. Now that deal you can still get in 2022.
Once you have a year of RN work, nobody cares where you earned your degree.
Ok.. let's break down the mothers mind:
- she wants her daughter to go to expensive college
-Expensive college = rich boys
- rich boy = possible future husband
- future husband will pay for everything, he is rich
- she, the mother, will participate , through her daughter, to high society.
- she, the mother, will try to find a old rich man to marry him
-she is rich now
- She will say: " it was love at the first sight, I didn't plan!"
@bubble jim exactly...only rich boys.
There is that. I should have paid more attention to boys when I was in college and graduate school. I was too stressed and focused on assignments.
Good strategy. Helping your daughter marry a successful man from a successful family is a good thing.
There is nothing better in this world than a good dad. 👍🏼👍🏼
I have been an RN for 8 years. Fun fact: graduates from tech schools start out at the same salary as those graduating from expensive universities. I went through Kent State’s ADN program. It was budget friendly in my area. Hospital paid most of my ADN to BSN. Nurses have a lot of opportunities and options. It’s not difficult to find a job near or exceeding 6 figure salaries.
I have a bachelors in nursing. Got an LPN degree in one year worked as a LPN while getting my ADN in one more year and then spent 3 years getting my BSN while working as a RN. Only thing I missed out on was debt. There are dorms and clubs and all the things at community college that are at a university without the cost!
Guess what? Many professors aren't full time. It's common to have a professor who works both at the state college and a community college at the same time to make ends meet. Same teacher, same course, and half the price. Gotta love Community Colleges.
To put it even further, a lot of universities have TA's teaching freshman courses. "Ka-ching" for the university. In community colleges there is no such thing as a TA.
@@mathisnotforthefaintofheart no
Honestly best way to be a RN is a go to community college get your associates of nursing then go online programs for your BSN and continue to masters
Glad Mr. Ramsey is fighting the Higher Ed Industrial Complex. It's about the education, not the frills.
I got 2 free years at community college with the pell grant. Then i finished 2 years at the local state uni and pell grant and some employer tuition reimbursement covered all except about 4k which I put on loans. My new job after graduation doubled my salary. Then they paid for my masters and increased my pay again by 10%. I make 100k. Community college was awesome. Not one person in my life looks down on me for this to my face. Seriously, nobody ever acted like i was weird or a loser. Almost everyone i work with has graduate degrees. Many started at community college.
Someone not paying the bill has no say in where the daughter goes to school.
The daughter is paying the bill that’s why she would get a student loan.
@@PC-ch1md I was referring to the divorced mother.
Make sure her Mom, who is against the community college on saving money with the prerequisite classes, make sure her mom co-signs ALL the student loans that she will need to pay for a U.V. Education. Mom will be part of the financial responsibility when payments are due as well as the daughter. (Agreed with the de-fund on stupid activity. 👍). Set rules and boundaries of expectation on her grades and responsibilities.
Genius make her co-sign the loans 🔥
I got my associate degree at a community college and worked while I was living at home, then transferred to a state university to get my bachelors in engineering. That was one of my best decisions I’ve made to date, and I’m thankful I made it at 18 years old. Now 28 with no debt other than a house on a 15 year mortgage 👍
Experience = partying not education
CC set me up for success. I graduated with no debt as a paramedic. I'm currently pursuing PA school and have transferred a lot of credits to a bachelor degree where I will graduate with no debt.
The only point I'd add is to check with the school you plan to get your four-year degree at to make sure you take all the classes you can at a community college that the credits will transfer.
How many here have asked their doctor. Or pharmacist. Or CPA or dentist or anyone with a degree where they went to school. GPA. and what rank they graduated. .
I'm a dds. I went to community College. I can answer any questions anyone has.
You can get into a nursing program with an associates and some nursing specialties do require bachelor’s but most employers will cover that.
Look I went to a university I am 43 years old.
I got into debt paid it off but while I was in college my counselor filled my head with all this money I would make with a degree in business and my wife got her two year from a community college and makes way more than me. Colleges down right lie to these kids about the value of the degrees they are selling. It's too the point I believe that it a student defaults on a loan and it is proven that the college over valued the degree they loan should be charged to the college.
RN here who thought I wanted to be an MD! I tell people this ALL THE TIME. Now I have a crazy amount of autonomy when it comes to my schedule and pay. ADN (CC) option usually less than 20k total BSN (bachelor) 45-100k depending on school. Most the time the hospital will PAY for you to do your BSN online. The difference at most hospital between RN and BSN is .50 a hour……no brainer.
My wife got a RN degree out of a community college and it cost her less than $5k and she came out making $100k+ with overtime and this was in 2002. She can always go back and get her nurse practitioner degree once she gets experience in health care
I went to community college. Then finished at four year college. Worked while at jr.c. At four year school was a RA. Graduated with $5000 in debt. Granted it was back in the 80’s. Got a great job. Sat next to guys from Amherst , Yale etc. made the same they made.
Have her listen to a couple of these callers and watch her sign up for CC with the quickness. Also, let her know you are NOT paying for an expensive college. She is not allowed to take you down with her stupidity. Let the ex handle it.
It doesn’t matter what university you graduated at when you are a nurse. You get paid the same.
Why did a parent call a financial advice show when you just tell the kid, "no"?
Cut her off 100%...not just her tuition.
I started at a 4 year university but hurt my back and couldn't get around to the classes. While fixing my back and going through therapy I went to community college and studied pre-engineering. After my back was better I went back to university and finished up my engineering degree with no issue. It was a great experience and it kept me on track. I also saved a bunch of money by going to community college.
There is absolutely no benefit in going to a prestigious school if you want to become a nurse waste of money.
I know its hard... I told my kid my money goes only to our local university and if she wanted to go to another college she would have to work extremely hard to get a full ride scholarship...she didn't care to attend an early college high school but followed my judgement...she just graduated early college hs w a free associate degree and has only two years left for her BSN, she thanked me and said she wouldn't be where she's at without me.. veterans benefits will pay majority of her college, she got a scholarship that will cover the 1st year of college...goal debt free upon graduation
This is the issue with our family court system. They make the non-custodial parent, who ironically usually is the bread winner, pay an enormous amount of child support to someone who is not responsible with their money. There is no examination and accountability of where the money goes either. Paying for college is a joint effort, or at least in my state it is. He could take HER to court to make her help pay for her daughter's college, but I don't live in a state with draconian divorce laws.
I retired from working at a university. I do not know of any college, university that has free parking. There is never enough parking for faculty and students ever. My aunt kept paying for her husband’s parking place at the U of M so her kids would have a parking place when they went to college.
For nursing, you do not need a 4 y college. It's a waste of money. ASN, go to a community college, then get your bachelor's while working. Thats what I did. My employer paid for my classes.
Since she's already working a job, they should start taking a student loan repayment's worth of cash out of her paychecks for a few months so she can feel what it feels like to work all day and have nothing to show for it.
That’s a great idea! I’ve tried talking to kids about this but I swear it’s just abstract until they have to pay it back years later
Love that Idea.
Absolutely love this! I'm going to remember this for when my kids are older and want something ridiculously expensive like this.
I went to the University of Florida and had a God honoring awesome campus experience and graduated debt free with my nursing degree. Thank you Mom for your help and the lottery scholarship I kept up while there. It was like $25k for the entire time
Saying ex-wife and logic is like mixing oil and water. These two things will never go together.
Nobody cares where I went to school. In fact in 30 years nobody is going to care where I went to school. Prestige isn’t a big deal. It helps for connections and that’s it.
My father offered to pay for college tuition. After a year at a university I had about a C average. My options after that were to drop out with no more help or go to Presbyterian college. Without any leverage I chose to continue my education. The funny thing is that with my upbringing, borrowing to continue my own path wasn't even an option in my mind.
The Ex wants the daughter to remain in college long term so the support continues.
Or the "Mrs. degree"
I went to a comm college, now a state college; graduated with my bachelors and now I am a teacher! Debt Free!
Yeah, he's screwed. The ex is gonna ensure that money pulls a David Copperfield.
I think that would depend on if that CC degree is transferable to a 4 year University. Community College is not enough. That being said, I've saved adequately. So my princess can go anywhere she wants.
Nobody cares what college you went to. They care about whether you passed your boards and got your license. Especially nowadays.
Be there, done that! It was an easy conversation for me: you can go to any college you want - I am not paying for it. I will pay for you to either go community college/University to get a degree in something that is marketable and sustainable or pay for it yourself.
Have her read thru all these comments, esp these nurses comments
The smartest way to do this is to do an ADN RN at the community college then do a CCNE accredited online RN->BSN program that the hospital will pay for. BSN nurses and ADN nurses both take the same exam NCLEX to get the same RN license. The only difference is the ADN takes all the required nursing but not the fluff courses needed to reach 120 credits which is the standard to get a bachelor's degree. Those fluff courses can be taken online as they are often not related to nursing day to day job and are just there to fill out enough credits to grant the bachelor's degree and the hospital will pay for it.
True, but if you want to be a NP or CRNA, you need the BSN.
@@WelshCorgi321 right but you if you passe the NCLEX and have completed the adn you can do the Bsn Online.
I worked with a woman who had a bachelors degree in business from the University of Maryland. When she decided to become a nurse she signed a contract with MedStar/Washington Hospital Center and they paid for her to get her BSN degree from Georgetown University.
Listen people :
I live in LA ; you would be surprised to see rich kids from Beverly Hills , Brentwood , and Santa Monica to attend Santa Monica Community College . Real story …
It will be of benefit for her to transfer to a 4 year college following her first two years regardless, so you’re going to have to compromise on that regardless even if you pay for her CC.
My friend has two daughters that cant even make a peanut butter sandwich.
Another point is that she is young enough to go to the university later, if she needed to then she could easily enroll into an accelerated BSN program. This way she has both the community college learning experience and the university lecture and test taking experiences. Or, she could just become an LPN through on the job training and certifications, then enroll into the accelerated BSN track. Another thing she could do is get training as a paramedic, work as a paramedic for a year or two, then go into an accelerated BSN track that’s offered to folks with paramedic experience. That way, she might get the education for free. She’s got a lot of options and research to do.
Also a lot of the times too CNAs who work part/full time while going to nursing school, their facilities will pay for their nursing school.
- A CNA in nursing school who’s company is paying for my schooling
I completed my Associates of Nursing…made the same amount of money as a BS Nurse. Had my employer pay for my BSN! Smarter financial move! We don’t care what school you graduated from..we only care about if your license!!
Community College is a great choice I don't know why people underestimate them. I went to Community College for Business management and is not bad for me, I have my own business and I do around $500k a year before my taxes. So, not bad for a Community College.
non-american here. can anyone explain why CCs dont seem appreciated by the general public so that people prefer to pay $50k a year for a private college?
In this country there is a stigma associated with community colleges. Many people view them as second-class institutions full of students who were not smart enough/too poor to attend a four-year college (Chris Rock had a joke saying that a community college was “a disco with books.”). Plus, most community colleges don’t have residential dorms like four-year universities do, so graduating high school students feel like they would be missing out on the “traditional” college experience of living on campus with other 18-21 year-olds (as community college students tend to be older). I went to a community college and if I hadn’t gone there, I wouldn’t have gotten the full scholarship that I did to the (very expensive) four-year university I got my bachelor’s degree from.
I got both my associates and bachelors from community colleges. I do owe a little bit of money but not much. I’m very thankful to have been able to have this opportunity to save money. I don’t care about large universities, I got the same degree others did for way cheaper and possibly even quicker because of less “fluff” classes that some large universities require you to take so they make more money.
This sounds like the ex wife has no issues spending other people's money. I know how he feels...
Focus on the education, not the "experience". The college "experience" is not worth 1 penny of debt. BTW- chances are 80-90% of the nurses you and your family will depend upon went to a community college or equivalent (a hospital program).
As State Universities moved towards what is effectively open enrollment, community colleges have dipped into a chunk of the applicant pool that is not academically prepared for college. To "promote retention" the CC's have watered down the curriculum to the point that much of the coursework is more like 6th grade. "Persons of a certain age" who went to college before the Participation Trophy Diploma era will have no idea that this has even happened. Read the course catalogue before you commit to any school.
Three of my professors freshman year at my expensive school taught at the community college using the same book.
My husband and I are business owners. We own a dental laboratory that is very successful. My husband makes more than some of the dentist he works with and doesn’t have a degree he’s just business savvy. It’s really sad he’s gotten close with some of these dentist and they are drowning in student loan debt. One of them was almost in tears the other day. It’s really sad. Our son desperately want to go to a four year and then to medical school. We want that for him too but we need him to understand to cost and what that would actually mean. We have arranged for him to meet with doctors we know so they can be real with him about what that financial burden actually looks like. We’ll help him but we can’t take him all the way we have five kids total and the next one is a year behind him. Parents have got to be transparent about the reality of the household finances. I feel for this guy because dealing with an ex is no fun.
The only time where you went to school really matters is if you’re trying to be at a top law firm or something like that for nursing community college is just fine
Better, have her talk to ten RN's. The real issue is that most RN programs turn away a lot more than apply because they just don't have the seats. That's why the expensive private colleges exist- folks don't want to wait 2 to three years before their number comes up in the lottery. In Southern California we tell students to apply to every CC that's within driving distance and hope the get accepted by one that is closest. I'm not sure how much money they would need to spend at a CC, though. Most states have tuition-free programs for middle and low-income families, and there is always the Pell Grant, which is something like $5K per year, for like $1400 tuition, you spend the rest on whatever you want.
Tell the ex to go kick rocks if she is not helping pay for college
Let her mother pay for the difference between what a semester at a community college cost and the much higher cost at the dream college. Any grade less than a C will result in him not providing any funds for the next year. Get the money from her mother !
Make a deal with your daughter. Say I will pay for first two years at community colleges then half of cost at Univeristy of YOUR STATE.
Let the ex pay for it!!!
You can play beer pong at community college🤣
Save that loan for NP school. I went to NP school online and it was about 50,000. Because I got a BS in Biology, Associates, BS and MSN NP, I am at 120,000 student loan debt... so she has time in the future to get in more debt but don't waste the money at the lower level.