r/collegeadvice

currently owe 41k in loans and sallie mae accounts for half, with an 18% interest rate

the college i’m at isn’t vet tech accredited, so if i finish and get a bachelors in animal science, i would have to take further programs to become one.

no current job, almost zero experience at a vet office and not sure what to do come August.

should i take out more loans and continue getting her bachelor’s degree, or drop out and take an online vet assistance program?
(don’t want to trigger existing loans to become due anytime soon)

I am really torn about what route to take for my undergrad. For some context, I am an incoming freshman at ASU online, majoring in Biological Sciences with a biomedical studies focus. I’m an Arizona resident and going to ASU made the most sense financially. I have known for years that I wanted to go to medical school and have 220 hospital volunteering hours and 25 hospital shadowing hours across five departments. Additionally, I grew up with a MD dad and my brother is attending DO school in the fall, so I have always been around the healthcare environment. I have a boyfriend of two years who also wants to attend medical school. As difficult as it may be, we want to try to get into the same medical school, as we are attending universities in different states and would really not like to have to do eight years of long distance, if possible.

My question and reason for posting is that I don’t know if ASU online is the best choice, all things considered. I did my entire high school online, so I am familiar with how online school works. Situation wise, it fits my family’s schedule the best. I just don’t know if attending ASU online is that disadvantageous when compared to attending an ASU in person campus. Please give me some insight and advice, thank you!

I’m 18F and I’m currently enrolled in community college. I don’t have any remaining childhood friends. I’ve tried making friends here, but people just don’t seem interested. I’m 6 years younger then all of my coworkers. So while they’re nice company and I like talking to them, I can’t really be their friend.

I’ll be transferring to University as a junior. I plan to try to get a dorm and stay there my junior and senior year (That’s probably weird. But oh well.) However, I’m terrified that I won’t make any friends in university. Most people make their friends in freshman year. Most people would’ve already had cliques. And it’s only two years. That’s not a long time to forge a meaningful bond.

So, just looking for advice I guess

I signed up for taking classes online through a college near me, I did have to wait for my sap appeal to be approved and loan reconciliation to be approved which took some time. When I got everything approved and signed up for classes it wouldn't let me do my schedule. The financial aid office said everything was fine to talk with registrar, when I talked with registrar they said they needed my college advisors approval, since I am starting classes on the last day available for June (both registrar and financial aid said Monday was fine and the last day to schedule) my college advisor said I should wait until August and she is going to have to ask her boss for approval? Is this possible? This doesn't sound right since both other offices said I was fine to go ahead and start. Advice please, thank you.

SO I plan to go to University of Rhode Island in the fall (yayyy) to study marine biology but I was also accepted into University of Maine. The prices of these school are drastically different and Im hoping I made the right choice.

University of Rhode Island:

Cost of Attendance before financial aid:

$61,710

After Financial Aid

$46,210

University of Maine:

Cost of Attendance before financial aid:

$38,894

After Financial Aid

$23,894

URI seems good because of its connections to NOAA and other opportunities and there is the graduate school BUT Umaine is connected to Woods Hole I think and they also are well recognized. I am not FULLY convinced URI is 20k better. I am already going to URI now but IDK if I am stressing too bad, I am also only paying for half myself, my parents are paying the other half. Also I think this is before waiving school health insurance for both. (I also didnt tour umain, DUMB move)

Really confused 😭. My college is starting from 17th july and I am confused b/w a laptop (40-50k) or ipad 11th gen ( with keyboard) .
Seniors says all the heavy work will be done on the college pc’s and there is no need for a good laptop.

Our work is just to prepare a document file for the semester book , or basic work . So I believe this all can be done on both .
I believe ipad is slightly a better choice as we can make notes on it also .

Pls help me decide one😭😭😭🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿.

I’m 17F (soon 18). I’m on my second semester of community college. I was originally going into nursing. But actually doing the class-work for it, and re-evaluating my life from the perspective of “What do I *actually* ***want*** to spend my life doing”… I realized I’m going to hate nursing. I just chose it because it was practical. And I figured I could tough out the abuse they go through. But that’s probably setting myself up for a miserable life.

Being reliable and practical is good. But it won’t matter if I quit after 3 years and change careers anyways. Nursing has a high burn-out rate after all.

Thing is, I have no idea what else to switch into. So I figured I’d seek suggestions here. So I can look into some jobs that maybe I haven’t even heard of before.

Topics I’m good at and/or like or would be okay working in -

\- Biology
\- Psychology
\- Sociology
\- English/Writing

Out of these.. realistically none are all that useful. Which is why I’m stuck.

Some of these could be alright if I go to grad school. Which I don’t mind doing.

Id actually like to work in the research field. But I’m not sure how realistic that’d be, since I’m switching to university as a Junior and I don’t know if I’d be able to get research experience that late.

Does anybody have any suggestions? Thank you.

I'm planning to goin a college at the age of 22

Hi, I'm currently about to enter my senior year of high school and have been urged to start my college essays/application process now. I want to get my bachelors in sociology because that is the only subject I've ever truly been interested in, but am not sure what specific job to aim for. Financially, my family and I are struggling to live off of my mother's income, as my father does not live with us anymore for personal reasons. I am ranked 4/149 students in my class with a 4.6 GPA. I've looked into being a social worker but have heard that most people are unhappy with that career, which has made me form doubts about entering the sociology field. Money has also played another role in this crisis since most jobs surrounding sociology aren't stable salaries in Texas (I'm thinking around 60k is a good yearly salary???). I'm mainly aiming at applying to a college that will be able to cover my full tuition and get a degree in sociology, I just don't know if it's worth it or not. To whoever thinks it isn't, please let me know any alternate suggestions that you have. I know I don't have to know my whole life plan now, but I just want to be able to get a head start.

I'm really tempted to narrow my list down a little bit since 20 colleges is definitely a lot (or at least switching out a few) :')

For some background on me, I'm an IB student from socal with an UW 3.67 GPA and a W 4.3 GPA. I've taken mostly honors, AP, and IB classes all throughout high school. My ECs are definitely ehh, but I do have a few research papers in progress, a charity fundraising event I'm organizing, I tutor, and I'm working on a health literacy initiative for my high school. I plan on going to med school to become a radiologist, so a good number of my schools are based on opportunities to prepare for that, alongside location. I'm first generation, low income, so I'm honestly looking for any school that'll give a generous amount of aid ':)

List:

UC Davis, UC Riverside, UC Irvine, UC Santa Barbara, Cal Baptist Uni, Santa Clara Uni, UH Manoa, Pepperdine, U Rochester, Fordham, Vanderbilt, Stanford, Emory, Brown, Rice, UMich, Boston U, Notre Dame, Case Western Reserve, and USC

currently UC Davis and USC are my top options.. but UMich has been calling my name sooo hard recently

I'm really open to any advice!! so pretty please help me I have sm anxiety about college :')

I want to go to main campus but don’t know if my grades are high enough to transfer directly in. (I have a 3.00 average and go to a catholic private school).

so i registered for a chem lab that starts at 8:00 am 😀 it’s on tuesday and i also have a hybrid sociology course that day, along with chem recitation at 5:00 that day.

it has 2 professors. one of them is rated really well, but the other has:

- two 5 star ratings

- one 3 star rating

- one 5 star rating

on rmp for my school. he’s also taught at some other schools too but the reviews for those are very mixed.. some ppl like him, others don’t. he seems average and some rated him only 1 or 2 stars.

the other only options i have are at 7:30 pm, on thursday. there is also a monday one at the same time. there is only one professor for each, the one who was rated very well.

both fit in my schedule, but i’m just scared because it’s so late. when i get home i feel like i wont have enough energy to do hw/study. for either the monday or thursday one, the next day i would have classes starting at 11.

if i stick with my tuesday 8 am, my final class on monday ends at 2:50, so id say i may have a decent amount of time to study/do hw and hopefully sleep early, that is if i dont take any naps during the day 💀

there are so many seats are open for these while no seats are left for my 8 am so if i switch i hope im not making a mistake!! any opinions? if you really stuck by to analyze everything you’re the best 😭

Hi everyone,

I’m currently on a gap year and planning to apply for university next year. I’m strongly considering a joint honours in Drama Studies & Sociology, but I’m getting a lot of pushback from family and people around me, so I’d really appreciate some outside perspective.

For context, I did well in school (high honours across 10 subjects including sciences, languages, maths, and arts) and I didn’t fail anything. My academic results have always been strong and I was originally encouraged to aim for “traditional” careers like law or medicine.

However, I personally feel most drawn to sociology and drama. I enjoy both subjects a lot and can genuinely see myself studying them for three or four years.

My family is concerned that this combination won’t lead to stable or well-paid career options, and as a second-generation immigrant, there is also a strong cultural expectation to pursue something like medicine or law. Because of that, I’ve started second-guessing myself.

I guess my question is:
How “risky” is a degree like Sociology + Drama in terms of employability, and what kinds of careers do people actually go into after it?

Any honest advice or personal experiences would be really appreciated.

Could anyone help me? I graduated high school and I never really took high school seriously. Unfortunately, events happen during my senior year and then I ended up not doing common app or applying to any college and now I want to change. Could someone help me or direct me to the right direction. I mainly need help with like finding scholarships to pay for and what to do. Thank you.

I’m currently 28 and have been deciding whether going back to school is the right call. What do you guys recommend and also what are popular majors right now. Also what are good school to apply into in California.

I am 20 years old, and I’m truly having a hard time choosing a major. I’m transferring to a four-year college and reconsidering my major from what I had at my community college. The main issue is that I’m considering majoring in history and sticking with it, but I’m also thinking about a complete change and majoring in radiation therapy. I want to be a doctor in the near future, and I’m committed to that path, but a part of me feels I should have a second option, with a third being law, just in case it doesn’t happen. I’m not doubting my choice; I just need help. What should I do? I’m so confused!

Hi everyone I’m an incoming freshman in Illinois and was hoping to get some advice from others that once were or are in a similar boat. Got a really great financial offer and in return I need to be a part of some program which includes a seminar, not sure what I need to do about it but I’ll ignore that for now because I’m sure it will come back to me. I am also part of the honors college program so it might look a bit different.

I’m a biology major B.S. and was hoping to see if anyone knew what courses I should take or are required of me to take for medical school requirement fulfillment. I’m planning to attend all 4 years, probably not graduating early but have credits from (APs, Dual credit, state credit)
•Macro
•gov politics
•western civilization history
•calculus 1
•environmental science
•composition
•a bunch from seal of bilateracy in Illinois
•nursing class(idek how it got transferred to that)
•speech
•4 credit hours in elective

Do I have to retake any of these? I’ve read med school want to see you take math and English but I alr have so much English done on top of calculus, requiring me to take calculus 2 and stats (maybe just one?)

Any help is appreciated it, I feel overwhelmed with this and like some of these credits are pointless if I have to retake. I have an option to graduate early but my school cost is minimal as I have almost a full ride and if I keep up with this would rather reinvest the time into clinical or research (planning to do emt at a near by college (8 credit hours) and drop my credit hours that second semester of freshmen year to 12 from whatever it was first semester that I’m asking for help on, but if would love help across any)

In your opinion, which college degree offers the widest range of ways to earn a living, including both employment and self-employment? And why?