Tips To Save On College - Page 2

ScrimpAndSave · #21 (**permalink**) 06-11-2008, 04:06 AM

Great tips...thanks!

slimsr2003 · #22 (**permalink**) 06-11-2008, 02:46 PM

We have two small children that we hope someday will go to college. My wife and I both attended college and have benefited greatly. I have some friends from High school who didn’t have time or some other lame excuse for not going to college and I must say for the most part my wife and I are significantly financially better off then them. I’m not trying to be rude here but it does make a difference if you go to college or not. So that being said we want our kids to go. We have started a small college fund for them but it is difficult to consistently put money into it.

While we are talking about saving for college, I just wanted to plug a YouTube contest being put on by an online savings bank, FNBO Direct call the Pay Yourself First Challenge. This could be a great way for people to get some new ideas on how to save money for college for their kids. If you are so inclined and want to join the challenge check out the web page at: pyfchallenge.com and submit your video to the group page on YouTube. There are prizes awarded just for submitting a video to the challenge, and there is a chance to have your savings matched dollar for dollar up to five thousand dollars. Anyway, check it out you never know.

WiseOwl · #23 (**permalink**) 01-26-2009, 08:40 PM

This might seem extreme but you might consider switching careers. As a professor, we get free tuition for our daughter (now 16). Althouh it was a paycut, the best saving we could ever get was free tuition for her. It will be far more cost effective for us in the long run.

autowoman · #24 (**permalink**) 03-04-2009, 03:11 PM

I earned as many credits in high school and community college as I could. Thats the cheap way

DFrancis · #25 (**permalink**) 04-23-2009, 10:46 AM

Go to a community college for the first two years then a state school for the second two years.

RedThunderBird · #26 (**permalink**) 06-20-2009, 08:04 PM

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Originally Posted by autowoman

I earned as many credits in high school and community college as I could. Thats the cheap way

nor only that but also one of the best ways too

msmorrisonspeaks · #27 (**permalink**) 07-13-2009, 08:59 AM

GREAT advice everyone!

msmorrisonspeaks · #28 (**permalink**) 07-15-2009, 10:56 PM

Hi everyone!
I also need to add:

1.) Consider public schools. Especially for college, state schools can often times be just as prestigious, if not more, than private schools.

2.) Consider community college or online college for your first year or two. You can then transfer these credits to a more expensive (and prestigious) school to finish your final two or three years.

good2goo · #29 (**permalink**) 08-10-2009, 05:21 AM

I am a student and have found that there is a website Chegg.com that allows you to rent books instead of buying them. It cost me about $30 to rent a $140 math book. I seriously doubt I would have gotten $110 back from the bookstore had I tried to sell it back to them. Its not a huge savings, but I estimate I probably save around $200-300 a semester by getting books online.

good2goo · #30 (**permalink**) 08-10-2009, 05:23 AM

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Originally Posted by msmorrisonspeaks

Hi everyone!
I also need to add:

1.) Consider public schools. Especially for college, state schools can often times be just as prestigious, if not more, than private schools.

2.) Consider community college or online college for your first year or two. You can then transfer these credits to a more expensive (and prestigious) school to finish your final two or three years.

That is good advise. I spend 2 years at community college before transferring my credits. Im glad I did because I ended up discovering that I didnt like my original major and switched. That can be costly at a major school.