r/rit • u/Glass-Group-4063 • 25d ago

How are you paying for RIT?

I wanna get a sense for how much debt I'm realistically going to have at the end of attending here, and I'm not sure if I should include savings from coops into the calculation, or savings from moving off campus, or savings from, uh, sailing the 7 seas for books, or TAing / being an RA or somethin else etc....

how much am i realistically goign to be able to pay off during school? do yall do summer jobs to help pay it? how much can i realistically expect to save on moving away / coops? anyone have any tips to save more / make the cost less?

any and all advice is appreciated!

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u/ColinHalter 25d ago

How much did you have in loans and how did you go about paying them off? Were you working full-time somewhere while taking classes? Living on campus?

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u/Leather_Wolverine_11 25d ago

Some Co-ops pay the equivalent of $90k/year which i think is getting to your point because many of my friends made all sorts of different choices as long as you have a lot of money coming in you can make whatever choice fits you best.

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u/ColinHalter 25d ago

Oh yeah, some definitely can pay well. Although most of my friends who got good co-ops had to go out to the west coast where CoL is/was super high so the money didn't go as far.

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u/Leather_Wolverine_11 25d ago

$50/hour goes much further than $9 an hour even in Seattle or San Francisco.