Anonymous #1 1w

….. That’s the problem, if I weren’t graduating I wouldn’t be able to afford to go because the maximum won’t cover my tuition and I have no other way but federal loans to pay.

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Anonymous #1 1w

That being said, if you’re going for a PhD, don’t you normally get the masters for free since you’re in theory either TAing or doing research for the school

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Anonymous OP 1w

And for my PhD, I’m fucked if it’s not funded

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Anonymous #1 1w

And no, I’m doing my masters now while applying to PhDs.

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Anonymous OP 1w

I’ve seen schools already lowering tuition to the $50,000 baseline, grad school is a profit seeking thing for a lot of colleges nowadays, much in the same way international undergrads are

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Anonymous #1 1w

$50,000 per what?

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Anonymous OP 1w

What is your masters in? In STEM that’s just not normal to do lmao

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Anonymous OP 1w

Per year

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Anonymous #1 1w

Mine is already much less than that, but Federal Loans will be capped at $20,400 a year.

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Anonymous #1 1w

Peace & Conflict Studies (could have worked for the State Department), I’m looking at PhDs in Political Science or Criminology. It’s not normal in my fields anymore either, but I was not ready to take the GRE Quant section when I was applying and all programs that make sense for me require it. I know plenty of people in STEM doing the same thing though.

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Anonymous OP 1w

If you have friends in STEM getting their masters first before applying to get a PhD they’re cooked 💀, it comes with the PhD program, at any R1 school that would be a massive controversy if they were doing that to people

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Anonymous #1 1w

We are at an R1 school and it’s not a controversy at all, but those STEM programs do let masters students TA. Bio is the one I’m sure of, masters students TA the Bio 1 & 2 labs or do research. Our non-STEM programs don’t have anything for masters students to TA.

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