All-Star Random Cheerleading Questions

[CaliChar]

Using a small team of 20 for example. The elite is the main stunt sequence in the routine. Typically this would be putting up 5 stunts and its the most difficult skills. Partner stunting is typically coed stunting or coed style because you do see girls basing it now. The quantity section is where you put up as many stunts as you can, so it would be 6 on a team of 20. This stunt usually isn't as difficult as the "elite" but there are more of them hence "quantity".


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Thank you so much! :D

 

[krystynakrez]

I pay $30,000 a year (plus $4,000 for the summer classes I'm taking online) out of state and that's still cheaper than what I would pay in state back home.

 

[Nvdw]

There is a clause in future cheer that says that any country apart from the usa can get a bid at internationals but only an at large bid and uk can get ul to a partial paid bid. The uk folloews the same level rules as usasf just hope other countires will follow as I would love to be able to compete in other countries

Slovenia follows the ECU rules and since when you can't get a bid in another country? so if I compete at elite and won senior coed 6 division I can't get a bid even if I am from Slovenia? I've never heard of this rule before.

i think you can! We won at spring open in Paris and got a bid for UCA

 

[Nvdw]

Wow. I pay about 1350 dollars a year for school and books. And that's it. If you would include housing and living it would be around 7000 dollars.

Something else, I have a question for coaches of European team or people with knowledge about usasf credentialing.
How can you ever get usasf credentialed for level 5 if you country doesn't have levels 1-4?

 

[CheerBank]

I pay $30,000 a year (plus $4,000 for the summer classes I'm taking online) out of state and that's still cheaper than what I would pay in state back home.

Not singling you out, but this goes for everyone attending a private college/university - paying that much for a school is a choice. There are many great state schools out there where you can get a phenomenal education without being in ridiculous debt for the next 30 years. Sadly though, what you pay for school right now is in no way over the top and is actually a great price for a private school.

 

[jcheermom]

It'll cost a little over $14,000 for me next Fall. But that's with out of state tuition and I get in-state, but my school hasn't adjusted it yet. According to the breakdown it covers tuition, a technology fee, and a required campus fee. Now that I'm in business school (undergrad program) all my business classes have course fees that are around $500 each. When I was a freshman and lived on campus, I had to pay a separate amount for housing and then for a meal plan that were both between $1,000-$2,000? Something like that. Maybe more. It doesn't include books either which will probably cost about 1k next semester. Textbooks are probably the most annoying/frustrating cost for me. Most of my professors require the newest or some special edition that will be irrelevant by next semester so I can't sell it back.

But, yeah, college is quite expensive in the US and my school is probably one of the cheaper options out there.

For books that you really don't need to keep after your class, try using chegg. My daughter uses it to rent her books and she pays around $150 a semester to rent her books for gen ed classes, and she ships them back for free.
She's a nursing major, so she doesn't use this method for her nursing related books that she will need as reference books to use in the future. I was paying $750 a semester for her books and getting $100 back at buy back!! Urgh!!


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[cheermomforever]

My son rents his books from Amazon. Much more reasonable! They even pay for return shipping.


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[xtremeteal4life]

For books that you really don't need to keep after your class, try using chegg. My daughter uses it to rent her books and she pays around $150 a semester to rent her books for gen ed classes, and she ships them back for free.
She's a nursing major, so she doesn't use this method for her nursing related books that she will need as reference books to use in the future. I was paying $750 a semester for her books and getting $100 back at buy back!! Urgh!!


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My son rents his books from Amazon. Much more reasonable! They even pay for return shipping.

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I freaking love Chegg!! They've saved us so much money on books it's not even funny! I check with more than one place each semester to see who has the best deals for renting books and so far it's always been the best for our needs.

 

[ErinS]

College is a trap.

That being said, I wouldn't trade my student debt or experience to have the struggles of some of the people I graduated from HS with, that didn't go. I consistently have to remind myself that although I may own my first born to Federal Loan Servicing... I'm also not doing something that makes miserable everyday.... Like I'd rather be in the student loan struggle... than in the minimum wage struggle.

I could go on for days about the injustice about funding college expenses in America, but I really don't want my blood pressure to skyrocket.

I will say that my younger sister does attend college out of state, however she was able get in state tuition thanks to the Academic Common Market. If there is something similar in your area, you should look in to it. You can get in state tuition at an out of state school if your intended major is not offered in your state. That being said, I can not stress enough....how foolish it is, to go to an out of state school to major in something simply (biology, education, nursing, coloring, rock climbing ) whatever.... that you could have majored in at a public school in your state. I cannot stress enough how stupid it is, for example, to live in South Carolina but opt to go to Alabama...or Ole Miss...or Georgia....when you can literally get the same stereotypical SEC experience at USC .

Chances are you're going to get into student loan debt... chances are it will probably be worth it....but there's also ways to avoid getting in over your head and only having a bachelors to show for it.... because yes... a bachelors is the new high school diploma.
For better or for worse.

That's all I've got to say about that.

 

[xtremeteal4life]

College is a trap.

That being said, I wouldn't trade my student debt or experience to have the struggles of some of the people I graduated from HS with, that didn't go. I consistently have to remind myself that although I may own my first born to Federal Loan Servicing... I'm also not doing something that makes miserable everyday.... Like I'd rather be in the student loan struggle... than in the minimum wage struggle.

I could go on for days about the injustice about funding college expenses in America, but I really don't want my blood pressure to skyrocket.

I will say that my younger sister does attend college out of state, however she was able get in state tuition thanks to the Academic Common Market. If there is something similar in your area, you should look in to it. You can get in state tuition at an out of state school if your intended major is not offered in your state. That being said, I can not stress enough....how foolish it is, to go to an out of state school to major in something simply (biology, education, nursing, coloring, rock climbing ) whatever.... that you could have majored in at a public school in your state. I cannot stress enough how stupid it is, for example, to live in South Carolina but opt to go to Alabama...or Ole Miss...or Georgia....when you can literally get the same stereotypical SEC experience at USC .

Chances are you're going to get into student loan debt... chances are it will probably be worth it....but there's also ways to avoid getting in over your head and only having a bachelors to show for it.... because yes... a bachelors is the new high school diploma.
For better or for worse.

That's all I've got to say about that.

Girl I can't help it, but after reading the very last sentence I immediately heard it in Forest Gump's voice, lol!

 

[shorttpai]

A teacher told me there was generally more scholarships for out of state kids so it could usually even it out or make it less than an in-state school????

 

[caitlyn_the_camille]

A teacher told me there was generally more scholarships for out of state kids so it could usually even it out or make it less than an in-state school????

I've never noticed there being more scholarships for out of state kids, just that they're worth more (but not proportionally, I guess is the right word). Out of state tuition costs a lot more than in state tuition, so merit and need scholarships are worth more, but it kinda cancels out.


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[xtremeteal4life]

A teacher told me there was generally more scholarships for out of state kids so it could usually even it out or make it less than an in-state school????

I'm guessing that would differ by state? One of my brother's attended FSU his first couple of years, but the first year was brutal IIRC. We moved to NC when I was 13 (and I'm the oldest) from Tallahassee and my parents still owned our old house in Tallahassee when my brother decided to go to FSU. The first year he did have to pay out of state tuition since he wasn't technically a FL resident and it was a lot more costly!! And he had a free place to stay bc he just stayed in our old home, so no housing expenses for him.

 

[luv2cheer92]

College is a trap.

That being said, I wouldn't trade my student debt or experience to have the struggles of some of the people I graduated from HS with, that didn't go. I consistently have to remind myself that although I may own my first born to Federal Loan Servicing... I'm also not doing something that makes miserable everyday.... Like I'd rather be in the student loan struggle... than in the minimum wage struggle.

I could go on for days about the injustice about funding college expenses in America, but I really don't want my blood pressure to skyrocket.

I will say that my younger sister does attend college out of state, however she was able get in state tuition thanks to the Academic Common Market. If there is something similar in your area, you should look in to it. You can get in state tuition at an out of state school if your intended major is not offered in your state. That being said, I can not stress enough....how foolish it is, to go to an out of state school to major in something simply (biology, education, nursing, coloring, rock climbing ) whatever.... that you could have majored in at a public school in your state. I cannot stress enough how stupid it is, for example, to live in South Carolina but opt to go to Alabama...or Ole Miss...or Georgia....when you can literally get the same stereotypical SEC experience at USC .

Chances are you're going to get into student loan debt... chances are it will probably be worth it....but there's also ways to avoid getting in over your head and only having a bachelors to show for it.... because yes... a bachelors is the new high school diploma.
For better or for worse.

That's all I've got to say about that.

Yes! The Academic Common Market is the greatest thing ever. I paid probably half of what I would have paid at most in-state schools even though I went to an out of state school. I knew that my undergrad degree would mean pretty much nothing with my intended career path so I wanted to get it the cheapest way possible, while also having an amazing college experience. This way I would feel better about paying more for a really good graduate school because that is what will matter in my future.

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[MomOf2ThatsMe]

Not singling you out, but this goes for everyone attending a private college/university - paying that much for a school is a choice. There are many great state schools out there where you can get a phenomenal education without being in ridiculous debt for the next 30 years. Sadly though, what you pay for school right now is in no way over the top and is actually a great price for a private school.

The problem is that she isn't at a private university- she's at a public one. More than a few people I went to school with came to school here (out of state) for the same reason she outlined- it was cheaper to come here out of state than it was to stay in state for a bachelors.