Posted on 08/08/2017 9:50:37 AM PDT by Theoria
Twelve years after finishing Harvard’s graduate theater program, Katierose Donohue still pays almost as much in student loans each month — about $650 — as for her share of the rent in Los Angeles. She recently stopped hosting her monthly sketch comedy show, “Ma’am,” because she didn’t always break even on her $200 budget. She’s now working side jobs as a dog walker and a social media copywriter, after past gigs serving at Starbucks and handing out free cigarettes for Camel.
She’s never missed a loan payment, but there’s no end in sight: She borrowed nearly $75,000 to attend the American Repertory Theater Institute, or A.R.T. Institute, at Harvard and still owes about $54,000.
“I can’t afford to make my craft, even though I’m regularly booking work,” Ms. Donohue said. “One fellow alum said to me, ‘Getting this degree basically guaranteed that I wasn’t able to pursue it as a career because I immediately had to get a job to pay for the education I received.’”
Most young actors don’t face graduate school debt like this — yet it is common for those who attend the A.R.T. Institute. Despite being at the world’s wealthiest university, institute students receive modest financial aid and leave with a median of $78,000 in debt in exchange for a master of liberal arts degree from the Harvard Extension School. In contrast, the loan debt average for master of fine arts students at Yale School of Drama tends to be around $14,000, a financial-aid officer said. At Juilliard, the average student loan debt for the four-year undergraduate drama program is $27,000.
The steep repayment burdens have been a straitjacket on students and their career aspirations for years. But now they have become a major problem for Harvard and the A.R.T. Institute, too.
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All that to lose the role to a gal who was a particularly good roll on the casting couch.
“One of these days”???
Hell, Hillary and especially Bernie were campaigning on that very notion.
The Free Sh!t party has been promising free college tuition for years. If elected.
I know Doc's that struggle to pay off their student loans, but they get it down. And that with bringing home some real money.
I have sympathy for those people who have chosen a different path and it hasn't worked out for them. I usually tip them well.
Don’t be too quick to dismiss Katierose’s ability to roll....
She’s a cutie.
Haven't Paul Rino and Mitch McDonald taught you anything?
Once you win the election all promises that got you there are null and void.
But she still owes $54,000??? What's her interest rate, 9%??
Thing is, there are really good paying jobs out in the entertainment biz, but just showing up with a degree in hand will not necessarily get you in the door. It’s a very tight knit scene where most jobs come from networking and reputation, and you will not be making great bucks until you have a good deal of experience under your belt, regardless of education.
Prime social justice worker recruit?
“Sucks for her that Hillary wasn’t elected.
That student debt would have been wiped clean by now.”
The Progressives will never actually forgive student loan debt. All those debt-slaves are far too useful as political tools. The Dems can propose student debt forgiveness anytime they want to paint conservatives as “mean” and “heartless”.
Besides, if all that student debt was forgiven some of these kids might be able to buy homes and raise families, and next thing you know they would care about issues like over-taxation and their country’s future and thus have to leave the Democrat party.
“Harvard is ripping off their students (in many ways).”
Harvard isn’t alone. Virtually all of the “Ivy League schools” have endowments that would allow for free tuition. We would be “debt free” if I had not allowed our last child to go to Boston University to graduate Magna Cum Laude in “Performance Music!” She now works for a contacting firm for $60k an year as HR manager, as we continue to pay on our mortgage that was the locus of the $200k her education cost.
If she really wanted to make money in her chosen profession all she had to do was give a hummer to the right Producer. Costs a lot less money.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Some win the birth lottery, while others are cursed with being raised by libs. Other than sterilizing all libs, I don’t know what they want us to do about it.
The question that comes to mind is “why”?
Especially since most of these ahole actors didn’t even pass high school.
Unilaterally intelligent professors teaching poor life experienced young prolonged adolescents, while pumping up their pride.All on the taxpayers dime...and the students or clueless parents dime...and when they need government assistance...back to the taxpayers dime..higher education should include teaching students how to assess the value of their aspirations(should be done at home or by high school age)
Zero sympathy for the idiot lib.
Stupid is supposed to hurt.
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