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8 extreme ways to avoid college debt (CNBC chimes in)
MSNBC ^ | 5/11/14 | Roy Luo

Posted on 05/11/2014 6:40:02 AM PDT by Libloather

Make an emancipation declaration
Get hitched (and marry down)
Join the military
Welcome the welfare state
Crowd-fund your tuition
Sell your genetic material
Become homeless
Reimagine the semester abroad

(Excerpt) Read more at money.msn.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: college; debt; education; educationfunding; extreme; highereducation
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Joining the military isn't extreme. Listening to CNBC is.
1 posted on 05/11/2014 6:40:02 AM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

The best way to avoid college debt is to not take out any loans.


2 posted on 05/11/2014 6:42:19 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Libloather
My Daughter is looking into ROTC at Penn State. They will put her in for a scholarship that would pay for the next three years. She would join the National Guard and continue her studies for Pre Med.
3 posted on 05/11/2014 6:46:47 AM PDT by angcat
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To: Libloather

Go to trade school for something like welding, plumbing, HVAC, etc. so you can graduate and get a high paying job within a couple of years.


4 posted on 05/11/2014 6:50:23 AM PDT by Hugin
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To: Libloather

College of the Ozarks (”Hard Work University”)
http://www.cofo.edu/

12 Tuition-Free Colleges
http://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/paying-for-college/slideshows/12-tuition-free-colleges

How to go to college for free
http://money.cnn.com/101/college-101/free-college.moneymag/

Where to Find Free or Low-Cost Job Training
http://career-advice.monster.com/career-development/education-training/free-job-training/article.aspx


5 posted on 05/11/2014 6:51:28 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I will raise $2M for Cruz and/or Palin's next run, what will you do?)
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To: Libloather

From age 16-20, serve plates of food at Los Amigos, change adult diapers at Sunset Acres Care Center, and clean the homes of friends. Save the money.

Go to college.

Don’t buy a car.

During the summer break, resume working.

Graduate debt free.


6 posted on 05/11/2014 6:58:21 AM PDT by lurk
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Mine was: Homeschool your children and make them so awesome the colleges beg for them.

It worked.

7 posted on 05/11/2014 7:01:38 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: Libloather

Get an entry level job at a company that offers tuition reimbursement. Take evening or online college classes. It takes longer, and it’s a lot of work, but you end up with a degree AND work experience AND no student debt.


8 posted on 05/11/2014 7:04:52 AM PDT by mrs. a (It's a short life but a merry one...)
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take high school ap classes, start college with three semesters of credit.

live at home,

work full time attend college part time


9 posted on 05/11/2014 7:05:38 AM PDT by jonose
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To: Libloather

Sell ur blood


10 posted on 05/11/2014 7:09:03 AM PDT by Steven Tyler
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It is also not ‘avoidance’. My son enlisted for this monetary assistance which was helpful, but his debts are paid, not avoided.


11 posted on 05/11/2014 7:10:05 AM PDT by sgtyork (Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy)
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Renounce your citizenship, leave the country, come back as an ILLEGAL, and get a FREE RIDE, at least here in Texas, thanks to Rick Perry and the rest of the Republican Establishment.


12 posted on 05/11/2014 7:13:03 AM PDT by BobL
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Do as much undergrad work as possible at junior college. Then get a degree in a field where there is work.

And don’t party your life away at College. If possible live with your parents and go to a college near your home.

Take a part time job and pay for your own tuition and books.


13 posted on 05/11/2014 7:17:34 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds)
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1. Attend first two years at a local community college and live with parents.
2. Become a resident assistant (RA) on a college dorm floor (part or all of room and board paid for which is tax free).
3. Depending on major, find summer positions that pay well-certainly mechanical or power engineering majors work in power plants for the summer-with over time make $15,000.
4. Follow mrs.a excellent advice.
5. Graduate with a degree that has a good starting salary and payoff your debt quickly. Graduates of the state maritime academies with degrees in marine engineering are making $70,000 a year plus room and board for about six months work (7 days a week and probably 10 hours a day)


14 posted on 05/11/2014 7:20:25 AM PDT by Maine Mariner
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To: Libloather

Effing’ weak generation. 07’ grad here and after the first year, I rescinded my college loan by working odd jobs after hours such as telemarketer, C programmer, escort service driver and strip club DJ, including bartender. Cash jobs.


15 posted on 05/11/2014 7:23:59 AM PDT by max americana (fired liberals in our company last election, and I laughed while they cried (true story))
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To: P-Marlowe

“If possible live with your parents and go to a college near your home.”

Worked for me along with a decent part time job. Graduated on time with no debt.


16 posted on 05/11/2014 7:25:17 AM PDT by Mouton (The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
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8 extreme ways to avoid college debt

There's 9 if you ask Belle Knox.

17 posted on 05/11/2014 7:25:22 AM PDT by Drew68
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To: BobL

You have it backwards. You can’t renounce your citizenship in the US, so you first have to leave the country.


18 posted on 05/11/2014 7:31:34 AM PDT by 22202NOVA (This Space For Rent. Offers accepted.)
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To: Libloather

Go to Trade School. Begin earning money immediately.


19 posted on 05/11/2014 8:18:11 AM PDT by Balding_Eagle (Want to keep your doctor? Remove your Democrat Senator.)
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To: lurk

You’re obviously not familiar with the cost of college in 2014 if you think that’s plausible. Nobody can save enough waiting tables in four years - assuming they have any expenses whatsoever in the interim - to pay for a four year degree of any significance. Obviously if mommy and daddy subsidize them then that’s different.


20 posted on 05/11/2014 8:34:16 AM PDT by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
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