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Old Posted May 9, 2012, 4:59 PM
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Originally Posted by Doug View Post
I have this debtate with my younger brother all the time. He ended up with $20K in student debt whereas I ended up with $18K in net savings. My total tuition over that period of time was around $6K. I completed my first two degrees in five years total while it took him five years to complete one. So assuming he averaged $4k per year, he spent aroud $14K more on tution than did I. So his finances should have only been about $14K worse than mine, but ended up $38K worse. Tutuion was only a minor contributor to the difference:
How long ago was this? The tuition you paid for two degrees is less than the cost of two terms of five courses was for me.

I went to school in an expensive province but I had no choice -- it was expensive tuition at home or a higher cost of living in another province.
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