Many of the Gossip Girl cast will begin the next chapter of their lives as freshmen at NYU next week, and I can't wait to see what happens when the drama goes to college. If they were really attending the university, it would cost $52,000 a year in tuition and room and board. Approximately how much was (or is) your college tuition?
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Mine was $35,000 per year, rising to $38,000 by my senior year.
1$56,000 tuition and board. GWU
2By senior year it was $41 K. I lived off campus so that price was just tuition.
Thank God for my full scholarship!
3$16,000 with room and board. and that's why I went to Rutgers!
4My senior year tuition, without room and board, was $35k.
5I think without room and board, it was $6K? I went to an in-state school- Ohio State.
Is NYU really that much for in-state?
6i went to NYU. it was $37k when i started in 2002, and $43k-ish when i graduated in 2006. thank goodness for scholarships & grants.
tiff--tuition rates for NYU don't depend on which state you live in, if i remember correctly, because it's a private school.
7NYU is a private school so no difference in or out of state. My son wants to go to NYU so I know all about the $52,000++ per year. Many years ago when I started undergrad at a Cal State Univ my fees were $76 per semester, books were triple that amount. Grad school was $16,000 for 2 years.
8i'm in my junior year at university of texas, and my first 2 years i lived on campus so it was $8k total a year, but now i'm in an apartment i'm paying $4k a year for just tuition. So 4 year total is $24,000
9Around 4k tuition and room and board. I went to a school in southern AR.
10I went to UCLA, so it was only 16k a year including room and board. And because my family had no money, I barely paid anything.
11Tuition was about $22K/yr when I started college in '99 and over $26K/yr when I graduated.
12I didn't pay a dime for tuition, due to scholarships . . . but tuition was around $7,000 annually, and I think room and board would have doubled that, so $14k.
13I go to STJ.. and since im a graduate student my tuition is about 33K. for my first 4 years of school it was about 30 K. damn expensive private schoola!
14Fordham's tuition plus room and board was about $40,000 per year. However, I had a four year grant that totaled $90,000, so that pretty much covered tuition, thank goodness! Otherwise, I wouldn't have been able to afford it!
15I think it was about $28k, but I have to honestly admit I don't even know since my dad was kind enough to pay for everything - having planned for his entire life to pay for all of his kids to go to private school and then any college of their choice. I do feel good that I was able to receive a $5k annual scholarship to ease the burden a bit, but yeah, it was a LOT. I can only hope to be able to do half of that for my kids someday.
16Tiff - go Bucks!
My tuition was around $38,000 for a small private school in Ohio.
17@havok636 Hook 'em Horns! Don't you mean 4k/semester? I'm in the school of communications at the University of Texas and I'm paying 4500/semester, or 9k/year and 36k total.
18right now I'm in the university of Victoria (in BC, Canada) and with room and board, its about 19k/year. so by the time i finish my degree in the next 2 years, it'll be just under 60,000$
gross.
19I went to UW-Madison as an in-state student, so I only has to pay about $6K per year and I finished in 4 years. I had a $1,000/semester scholarship that helped out a lot, but the rest was student loans and my parents helping a little bit where they could. They never saved any money for our tuition; they wanted us to pay our own way through college so we'd appreciate it more or something.
20I went to university in Québec and it was about $1000 / semester for tuition. I live in Europe now and if I wanted to go to university here, it would be free.
21It was about $30,000 a year for tuition and room and board for a private school in Ohio.
22I just looked it up and the current cost is actually closer to $40,000 a year, so maybe it was closer to $35,000 when I went there. I'm not really 100% sure, though.
23Lilkimbo - where did you go!? I went to Kenyon.
24I went to Dayton.
25Canadian schools are highly subsidized for those in-province (all universities are public) and my first year was $3000 and it was $3800 when I graduated four years later.
26I lived at home so I didn't need to worry about room and board.
Lilkimbo - awesome! My parents went there.
27I loved it there! It was a fun four years.
28Virginia Tech! Goooo hokies! It is around 18K for out of state (which is just 2,000 more then in-state Rutgers, but VT has a veryyy good engineering program!) In state for VT is like 6K.. its redick. i def want to move to Virginia when I have kids, they have a ton of really good, cheap, in state schools. That and cali too..
29FinnLover, I also went to school in Quebec. Not only is our tuition super cheap compared to the US (2000$/year), my bachelor's degree was only 3 years. So I only had to pay 3 years worth of tuition instead of the usual 4.
My husband also went to university in Quebec, but, since he is American, he paid international fees which were about 12 000$/year. This was still cheaper than the in-state rate at the University of Vermont.
30Geez! $52,000?
My first year was about $3500 for tuition alone (I live at home), but I had a scholarship that covered the first four years. After the first year, the cost kept steadily climbing. I didn't have to take out any loans until 08-09, and my cost was about $7000.
This is my last semester and it's about $4500 for this alone.
31RWU...38k per year. Loans...60k. College on the ocean...priceless.
32$53K for room and board at Cornell. Thankfully they paid for 95% of it. Yay for being poor and smart.
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