TURNING DOWN MY DREAM SCHOOL..

[lyssamarie]

Hey guys, I'm Alyssa and I'm now on my 7th year working towards my BSN. 

A little back story on me, I did my pre-reqs for nursing school at a community college and since I qualified for financial aid and was also working full time, it cost me nothing to get my pre-reqs done and also took me a lot longer to get it done because of work. After I did my pre-reqs, I went to Unitek to pursue my LVN degree since I was constantly getting rejected from nursing schools for 5 years straight. I completed my LVN program with a 3.8 GPA and worked as an LVN for a year. 

Fast forward to today, I got accepted at Unitek's BSN program. It's a 2 year accelerated BSN program for around $75k which is crazy, but worth it to me since I wasn't making any progress at other schools. Recently, I got an offer letter from University of San Francisco's BSN program. I was ecstatic and so ready to hit the "intent to enroll" button, until I found out that that program is $120-150k. 

I'm so heartbroken, but after 7 years of trying to get into a University, I'm turning it down for Unitek. Congratulations to whoever is on the waitlist for Fall 2022 because ya girl is declining because I can't afford to be in that much debt. 

Not sure why I'm posting this, but I've been so heartbroken the last couple of days and I needed to vent to others who may know how I'm feeling. 

[Leader25, ASN, BSN, RN]

You did the smarter thing,that is way too much debt ,that you will never break even if you want to have a life.I do not know about Unitek but if you graduate with BSN then you have met your goal,a degree and no huge debt.Go to work pay it off quickly then start a savings plan for your future .Good luck to you.

 

[lyssamarie]

1 hour ago, Leader25 said:

You did the smarter thing,that is way too much debt ,that you will never break even if you want to have a life.I do not know about Unitek but if you graduate with BSN then you have met your goal,a degree and no huge debt.Go to work pay it off quickly then start a savings plan for your future .Good luck to you.

 

That's exactly what I needed to hear, thank you so much for that. My boyfriend and I have been talking about traveling, getting married and having kids and buying a house, and all of that would be affected by this debt. We talked it over and came to the conclusion that no BSN is worth $200k of debt.