College

[Nihil Obstat]

[quote name='icelandic_iceskater' post='1831199' date='Apr 10 2009, 08:17 PM']ooh, not bad! ^^ are you going to a private school or a... providence school? (is that what they call state schools in Canada? lol)

I got my award letter today. I think I will be able to afford Holy Cross! They're giving me $15k-ish in grants and $8k-ish in loans. I also applied for a couple small scholarships this week, so I'm still waiting to hear back from em on that. This still leaves 3-5k to pay plus books and whatnot... I may have to take out another 2k or so in loans and I'd be graduating with around $40,000 to pay off (at the most). But I think it's do-able!



now I'm really anxious/excited/nervous/really want to look through a course catalog [/quote]
Hehe, providence? I have to assume you meant "province" or something... but no. The truth is more interesting.
Education is quite different in Alberta from the US. Private schools and homeschooling don't really have the same degree of popularity. We have a public board as well as a "seperate board" which is the Catholic system. It's also public and publically funded, just Catholic. We have religion classes, mass (in high schools), stuff like that.
In practice it's not very different from the public system, but it's a nice thing to have.

EDIT: but the University is compeltely public. I actually don't have any idea why it's so much more expensive in the US.

Edited April 11, 2009 by Nihil Obstat

[Christie_M]

[quote name='Nihil Obstat' post='1832208' date='Apr 11 2009, 05:54 PM'][b]Hehe, providence? I have to assume you meant "province"[/b] or something... but no. The truth is more interesting.

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I thought I was the only one to make that mistake!

[Nihil Obstat]

[quote name='Christie_M' post='1832211' date='Apr 11 2009, 06:58 PM'] I thought I was the only one to make that mistake![/quote]
First person I know.

[Christie_M]

[Nihil Obstat]

[quote name='Christie_M' post='1832468' date='Apr 12 2009, 12:20 AM'][/quote]
I won't tell anyone.