I sold my eggs to pay off $50K in student debt

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  1. chrisjm18

    chrisjm18 Well-Known Member

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  2. Dustin

    Dustin Well-Known Member

    Of course, she didn't really have "no other options." $167K for undergrad? $80K for a Master's at NYU?

    I don't believe her when she says she "exhausted every other avenue, she said, including commuting from home in California during undergraduate, taking out the maximum student loans allowed, selling her car, going to community college and she was even in an early college program in high school." If she went to community college and transferred 60 credits into a 4 year Bachelor's degree (ignoring the CLEP/early college credits she earned), how did she rack up $167K of student loan debt in under 2 years? Even assuming that the MPH tuition was included in the larger number and it was really only $87K for undergrad, how do you get access to $43K in student loans per year?

    And at the end of the day "I struggle with sleep now, digestive issues, weight loss [and] gain, mood,” she said. “Just things that weren’t very obvious before I started doing this now I feel like have become a bit of a problem.”

    At the end of the day she's still in debt, underemployed and may have physically damaged her health.
     
  3. AsianStew

    AsianStew Moderator Staff Member

    Basically, I don't get how she calculated that debt amount... I might have missed it, I'm curious what was her undergrad major and where did she get her undergrad? Since she was from California and already has some undergrad, it wouldn't have cost so much for her final two years of her undergraduate studies... I wouldn't have guessed a Masters in Public Health from NYU would be that expensive!
     
  4. TEKMAN

    TEKMAN Semper Fi!

    I don't really buy these kinds of personal student loan debt stories. They seem to be BSing with the journalists because they don't need the evidence for the story. I love how American student loan debtors blame American taxpayers for their poor decision. I don't like the idea of student loan debt forgiveness, or FREE education (taxpayers have to pay for higher education); instead, college students allow students to borrow student loans interest-free and limited amounts to major leading to potential earnings. A History major should not have to borrow the same amount as an Engineering major.
     
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  6. Vicki

    Vicki Well-Known Member

    She made poor financial choices and it’s everyone else’s fault. Hmmm

    “Jones said people over 40 are “dismissive and aggressive” toward her generation — but she argued that bachelor’s degrees simply aren’t enough to get higher-paying roles.

    “We actually are working even harder than they did with very little to no reward to speak for it, and I think that is why our adaptations and priorities have shifted as a result,” she said.”
     
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  7. Stanislav

    Stanislav Well-Known Member

    One takeaway is that some Master's programs at NYU are worse than for-profit options. Predatory.

    For that particular student: yeah, we don't have a complete story. Journalist didn't even try to get useful information to us.
     
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  8. datby98

    datby98 Active Member

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