Hello idiots. Sarcazmo here to help you out.
First, CLEP is your friend. You can do a ton of them for FREE!
Second, there is something called head start or something. You can take classes when you are in high school that count for college.... FOR FREE!
You can get your whole first two years knocked out for free.
You get scholarships for the rest. I suspect you qualify for many... even without the actual scholarship.
But here’s the kicker. All that requires hard work. By the looks of you three, that is not in your lexicon. Robbin’ on the other hand.... oh yeah, that’s what you were talking about.
Our student workers in the library make $15.00 an hour and usually work at least 10 hours per week. So $15.00 per hour x 10 hours x 30 weeks = $4500 per year. Work 40 hour a week during the summer and breaks and Christman say 15 weeks and we have $10.00 x 40 x 15 = $6000. So $10,500 a year.
The $10.00 per hour during the summer in conservative in today’s labor market.
By the way, don’t most doctorate programs offer stipends and tuition waivers?
I volunteered as scholarship director for over 20 years for a non profit. We advertised scholarships of $2K and would receive few applicants. Raised to $5K and even at that, few applicants. I believe the organisation is offering more now. Students are too lazy to fill out the application, write an essay, line up recommendations and send transcripts. The scholarship has to be $10K or more to attract their attention! I would have welcomed this opportunity at the $2K when I was a student.