What are you all eating? I feed two adults and a toddler plenty of food for under $2000 for eight months!

Originally Posted by ashleighp

What are you all eating? I feed two adults and a toddler plenty of food for under $2000 for eight months!

Mad overpriced Mac food.

I can feed my roommate and I for about $40 a week, and since we take turns I spend about $640 for the school year on base groceries. That doesn't include anything extra that isn't bought regularly (ie condiments, certain frozen foods, takeout) but even factoring that in it doesn't even come close to $2000, let alone $3000.

Yet another way Mac rips you off in rez.

Originally Posted by randhirmiz

Res is actually more like $6000-7000, and the meal plan is somewhere around $3000. The supplementary costs are also around $900, tuition is about $6000, and don't forget the cost of textbooks.
Do the math.

If you need further proof, I have the McMaster admissions info booklet right here.

If you don't have your facts right, don't bother commenting, hun.

I don't know what fees you pay but tuition is 10k for engineering, res is 5.3k-7k, meal plan is 2.6k at the cheapest one (no oven).

Im not sure what you mean buy supplementary fees. New textbooks are one of the biggest though.

How is anyone paying a 6k tuition?

Originally Posted by Mac-10

I don't know what fees you pay but tuition is 10k for engineering, res is 5.3k-7k, meal plan is 2.6k at the cheapest one (no oven).

Im not sure what you mean buy supplementary fees. New textbooks are one of the biggest though.

How is anyone paying a 6k tuition?

Well on my PA, tuition is $5624.10

Originally Posted by Mac-10

I don't know what fees you pay but tuition is 10k for engineering, res is 5.3k-7k, meal plan is 2.6k at the cheapest one (no oven).

Im not sure what you mean buy supplementary fees. New textbooks are one of the biggest though.

How is anyone paying a 6k tuition?

Yup, about 9-10k for full course load in eng, just about the right range for res (3-5k for off campus rent, I believe), good average for meal plan (2k-3k off campus food expenses).

Part time people, or people in programs like arts and science, nursing, soc sci (187$/unit) works out to 6-7k in tuition at the high end. (33 units)

It might sound like a stupid suggestion, but I would do it if I badly needed money. Go to your local car dealerships and ask them if they would pay you to wash their cars... they don't all have clean cars all the time.

If you applied for OSAP and have a really generous friend, then ask them to lend you the money and pay them back as soon as you receive your OSAP installment.

You can also look for things around your house that you can sell at a pawn shop. Once you get your OSAP money you can go back to the shop and buy them back (I don't know much about pawn shops so I don't know any good ones or if there is a risk that comes with selling your belongings to one).

Originally Posted by Mac-10

I don't know what fees you pay but tuition is 10k for engineering, res is 5.3k-7k, meal plan is 2.6k at the cheapest one (no oven).

Im not sure what you mean buy supplementary fees. New textbooks are one of the biggest though.

How is anyone paying a 6k tuition?

...Humanities is. Plus I got a McMaster scholarship, which lowered my tuition about $700.

Originally Posted by McMStudent42

Hey guys, I'm an engineering student. I got put on the waiting list for residence and just got an e-mail yesterday on August 15 that I have to put a $600 deposit by August 17, which is tomorrow. I'm a poor student from a poor family (we live in a 2-room basement apartment for a family of 4) and we just moved so our expenses are totalled. I'm trying to get a loan but by tomorrow it's kind of hard.

Anything I can do? I really want to live at McMaster.

Didn't you already post this?

Originally Posted by starfish

Didn't you already post this?

Gotta love first years!......