25 years old and deep in debt

[DGuller]

University rankings are poop.

[DGuller]

  Actually, Beeb's right, they are poop.

[katmai]

http://www.forbes.com/top-colleges/

My alma mater is #183. 

#66 and #132

#55 and #114, so suck it Texylander!

[Capetan Mihali]

My two are both on the first page. 

[katmai]

My two are both on the first page. 

Okay garbon lite.

[katmai]

University rankings are poop.

Your school didn't even get a rank?

[Berkut]

Man, Arizona is 200something. I thought they would be considerably higher than that.

They kick ass in the hot babes per square mile category.

Indeed they do.

I take great solace however, in two things:

1. We are of course vastly higher than ASU.
2. The Pac-10 has a corner on the top schools that are not the Ivy League.
3. We are top-50 for research schools! Whatever that means.

[katmai]

A buddy of mine at grad school used to call it dropping the H bomb.  As in "i was hitting on this chick at the party and I dropped the H bomb on her."

Yeah Yi isn't such a loudmouth like others...

[katmai]

Man, Arizona is 200something. I thought they would be considerably higher than that.

They kick ass in the hot babes per square mile category.

Indeed they do.

I take great solace however, in two things:

1. We are of course vastly higher than ASU.
2. The Pac-10 has a corner on the top schools that are not the Ivy League.
3. We are top-50 for research schools! Whatever that means.

Who isn't?

[DGuller]

My alma matter is in the top 239.

[Capetan Mihali]

My two are both on the first page. 

Okay garbon lite.

Come on, there's a lot of things wrong with me, but a status-obsessed braggart, I'm not.  I agree that the rankings are generally crap and not relevant to most people's lives.  Though this one at least looked at outcomes and such rather than SAT scores, etc. 

And I only did undergrad once.  So, darnit, I guess I can only count #6, not #8.  :humblebrag:    And like you, hermano, my Delco roots go back further than college.

[PDH]

199!  Way better than any other university in Wyoming!

[Phillip V]

Undergrads Blow It With Student Loan Refunds

http://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/paying-for-college/articles/2013/07/24/undergrads-blow-it-with-student-loan-refunds

The tipping point was when he approached the school's student loan office to get help with his $3,000 tuition payment, he says. He walked away with $16,000 for that quarter, starting a cycle that would continue for the rest of his undergraduate career.

"Every quarter I got more free money," he says. "I needed new clothes. I needed a cool car. I needed a nice place to stay."

Smith bought a Jeep, stereo equipment, televisions and more. What he didn't spend, he invested, and lost.

When he graduated in 1997 with his bachelor's in sports marketing and management, Smith was confronted with a harsh reality. At $1,400 per month, his student loan payments were double his rent, and he was unemployed.
...
Christina Meehan splurged on a trip to Italy when she received one of her student loan refunds.

"I always took out way more than I needed," Meehan said in an email. "I thought if it as 'free money' that I would eventually have to pay back when I was living like Carrie from Sex and the City."

Now 31, with a bachelor's and two master's under her belt, Meehan's student loans total nearly $200,000. She currently works as an online media manager at Rosemont College in Pennsylvania, but said she makes less now than she did straight out of undergrad.

[CountDeMoney]

That's nothing new, students have been doing that for years.

Hell, I remember the first student loan check Dragon Lady got for law school, she ordered $700 in shoes.  That's part of the reason her ass was $80K in debt by the end.

[Ed Anger]

Only rankings that matter are football rankings.