U.S. Grad Schools Aren’t Only for the Wealthy, Here is My Cornell Tech Story | by Noel Konagai | Medium

Before I made the decision to attend graduate school, I had a lot of questions, whether my undergraduate major mattered, what is it like to finance an entire graduate study through loans, and how hard it would be to be able to work as an international student in the U.S. Back then, I really wanted to read someone’s story to reassure myself I was choosing to do the right thing. This is a piece about my international student experience at Cornell Tech, the tech-entrepreneurship focused campus of Cornell University, to help others make informed decisions. For someone like me, who grew up in Hungary and didn’t speak fluent English until late in my pre-university education, I used to think that pursuing a Master’s in the U.S. was for the wealthy and the elite. With the full cost of attendance at Cornell Tech totaling to almost $80,000 (and double for the two-year programs), I thought I would never be able to attend the school because of my humble financial background. I was able to finance

Before I made the decision to attend graduate school, I had a lot of questions, whether my undergraduate major mattered, what is it like to finance an entire graduate study through loans, and how hard it would be to be able to work as an international student in the U.S. Back then, I really wanted to read someone’s story to reassure myself I was choosing to do the right thing. This is a piece about my international student experience at Cornell Tech, the tech-entrepreneurship focused campus of Cornell University, to help others make informed decisions. For someone like me, who grew up in Hunga