They each have a few thousand dollars in loans, and they both did some work study. The rest for grants. Also it’s easy for students who get financial aid in California to get EBT.
Few thousand in loans for an undergrad degree is amazing.
Yeah, that’s from UC. My eldest spent a year at a private school and I think we had 25,000 in loans from that year. I paid that off.
I thought she did the CC → UC route? Why go private instead of UC?
My eldest spent a year at a private college and then she went to various junior colleges and then transferred to UC berkeley. My youngest went to Santa Monica college and transferred to UC Santa Cruz.
Out of curiosity, what made her do the year of private college vs skipping that step?
I would say probably pride.
In hindsight it was good other than costing a lot. It was nice to go to a very small school where they gave you a lot of attention and she was pretty young. And it turned out that her experience at Berkeley was kind of messed up socially because of her stupid boyfriend, so it was nice that she had a good experience going away to college her first year. Nano, my youngest, had her first couple of years of college during lockdown anyway so community college worked out well for that. And she is having a fantastic time at UC Santa Cruz. It all worked out pretty great. The cost was very very low aside from the year of private school. Bro graduated with honors. Nano has like a 3.97.
Reminds me of when I was in that spot. I can assure you that I understand exactly what you mean better than most.