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Is skiing worth out of state tuition?

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SamLegierski
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I am a huge skiier and am starting to look at colleges around the US, i live in MN so we dont have anything to brag hill wise here. I want to go to Colorado Utah or Montana, but the out of state tuition is around 20-30 thousand more, is it worth it? if i end up going to college in MN i will probably move out there anyway. What do you think? (i want to go to school for business and marketing)

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heFF
Posts: 5786 - Karma: 4,457
if you go to utah it's really easy to get instate..so you just don't go to school for the first year or just pay instate for a year and then claim residency after that year
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seanahue.
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bingo, and regardless, it is worth it
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JKravitz
Posts: 267 - Karma: 606
University of Nevada, Reno is a little cheaper at around 15k a year (might have gone up a little since I graduated) and is only a half hour away from lake Tahoe. Just another option and if you love skiing enough then it is definitely worth it
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Jahseph.
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I spent last winter in Reno and commuted every day to Tahoe to ski or work. The drive kinda got old after a while but it was still totally worth it.
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Byron_tha_gr8
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its all about montana state
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casey.clement
Posts: 208 - Karma: 596
Depends how much you are willing to spend to ski. But you should also look for a school that you want to actually go to because you can travel to those places for cheaper than the tuition would be.
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skiminnesota
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depending on grades Westminster in Salt Lake hooks you up with scholarships, its the only way i was able to afford going here, ended up costing me less out of pocket than university of MN would have cost me.
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roddy116
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well if you do go to college in mn, there is always u of m duluth.
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johnnyBuz
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i don't think taking out an additional $80,000 - 120,000 in student loan debt is worth 4 years of skiing (assuming your parents aren't paying and you meant 20-30k per year).

As someone else mentioned, if you can afford to take a year off and bum around Utah and then are able to claim residency, definitely do that, but as someone who is working in the financial sector right now, the economy still sucks and you don't want that much student debt hanging over your head.
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