I say work, being in debt for life really sucks.

317 wrote I say work, being in debt for life really sucks.

That was the main rebuttal to my second choice; being in debt from an accumulation of 40K from loans sucks.

jackdomm wrote First of all, I'm a junior in high school; I need to make ends meet to go a specific college that only requires a 2.8 GPA for admission.
My choices are:
Working (currently am] and make 15K a year, while maintaining a 3.1 GPA (10K annual expenses for school).
Study primarily and maintain a 3.5+ gpa without any financial aid from my parents.

It's really to decipher from this conflation; strive or maintain?

id say work too dude debt a bad thing at the minute

Depends on the universities that you can get into with the higher GPA. If they're top-tier/mid-top tier schools (i.e., Ivy League, Stanford, UC, etc), they can provide you with better jobs straight out of university thus mitigating the extra debt.

But again, it all depends on the university and even more importantly, whether or not the program you choose is in demand. If it is in demand, then it really doesn't matter about the school that you go into. If it isn't, then it does. A person who majors in English from Harvard is more likely to get employed than a person with an English degree from the University of Akron.

However, if the program is in demand (i.e., computer science) then it doesn't matter whether you get it from MIT or Oklahoma State.

If I were you, I'd probably take the risk and try for the higher GPA. Will you be in debt for life? No, provided that you have a decent job plus you work during university, you'll pay it off eventually. But, going to a better university can give you access to better jobs.