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student loans to achieve higher earning power faster. austingoodrich1 01-24-2008
Posted by on January 24, 2008, 5:22 pm
I am a 23 year-old full time college student. I have a seven month old
daughter, I am unmarried but, my daughters' mother and I are together.
My girlfriend claims our baby and receives finical aid since my mother
is able to help me with my tuition. I will receive my associates in
business administration this summer. When I am done with this degree I
am going to start working on a bachelor degree in accounting. I will
be basically starting over with four more years of school ahead of
me.

To finish up my business administration degree I am taking 16 credit
hours his semester, and I am going to take out a student loan as I am
the main bread winner, and unable to work as much with my schooling.

This has raised the question of should I take out student loans to
help cover living expenses? I think that my future earning power makes
it worth taking out more loans so I can concentrate on school. What is
your opinion?

Thank you,

Austin Goodrich


Posted by on January 24, 2008, 6:25 pm
Well Mr. Business Administration degree, this seems like a simple
problem in Net Present Value. Calculate the NPV of all future
earnings if you DON"T borrow the money. Then calculate the NPV of all
future earnings if you DO borrow the money. Your future earnings will
be lowered by the loan payments and you won't have any earnings for 4
years or so. To make this an apples to apples comparison use the same
discount rate, e.g. the student loan rate. Someday your boss will ask
if borrowing money to upgrade equipment is really worth it. Same
calculation.


Posted by PeterL on January 24, 2008, 7:13 pm
On Jan 24, 2:22 pm, austingoodri...@hotmail.com wrote:
> I am a 23 year-old full time college student. I have a seven month old
> daughter, I am unmarried but, my daughters' mother and I are together.
> My girlfriend claims our baby and receives finical aid since my mother
> is able to help me with my tuition.  I will receive my associates in
> business administration this summer. When I am done with this degree I
> am going to start working on a bachelor degree in accounting. I will
> be basically starting over with four more years of school ahead of
> me.
>
> To finish up my business administration degree I am taking 16 credit
> hours his semester, and I am going to take out a student loan as I am
> the main bread winner, and unable to work as much with my schooling.
>
> This has raised the question of should I take out student loans to
> help cover living expenses? I think that my future earning power makes
> it worth taking out more loans so I can concentrate on school. What is
> your opinion?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Austin Goodrich


First of all Austin, you won't be starting all over with four more
years of college. Your community college credits will transfer so you
can finish faster at a four year school.

Second, what is the alternative? If you don't take out the student
loan how will you be paying for living expenses?


Posted by sandybeth on January 25, 2008, 9:37 am
> My girlfriend claims our baby and receives finical aid since my mother
> is able to help me with my tuition.  I will receive my associates in
> business administration this summer. When I am done with this degree I
> am going to start working on a bachelor degree in accounting. I will
> be basically starting over with four more years of school ahead of
> me.

I don't understand one sentence above--what has your girlfriend
claiming the baby & receiving financial aid have to do with your
mother paying the tuition? Will your mother continue to pay your
tuition if you get a student aid loan? Why are you continuing to work
on an associates in BusAd if you plan to get a 4-yr BA in Accounting?
Why not just quit the Associates and get going on the BA if it's going
to take you 4 years anyway?
I may be wrong, but I don't think that an associates degree in BusAd
will get you much of a job, if any. There are many types of student
loans--research them to find out what's best for you--it sounds as tho
this may be your only option of getting through school.


Posted by kastnna on January 25, 2008, 10:36 am
> Why are you continuing to work
> on an associates in BusAd if you plan to get a 4-yr BA in Accounting?
> Why not just quit the Associates and get going on the BA if it's going
> to take you 4 years anyway?
> I may be wrong, but I don't think that an associates degree in BusAd
> will get you much of a job, if any.

This is exactly what I was thinking. Why the associates? I don't
suspect that there will be many cases in which the bachelors isn't
good enough to land you the job, but the extra associates degree
"seals the deal".

Is it not possible to transfer to the 4-year college, take your
business credits with you, and finish that accounting degree in 2 or 3
years?


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