Coming from someone who is both living in New Brunswick and going to school here, I can say that all the replies above are adequate and accurate.
I want to share a couple of things from a first hand experience to you guys:
I entered a Bachelor of Arts program directly after graduating High School - during this time, I felt enormous amounts of pressure from my schoolmates, teachers, guidance counselors and even my parents that University was the only suitable option. Upon arriving to University in my first year, the government provided full coverage, no questions asked and even with my parents annual income attached to the loan application The 2nd year of my 4 year program, the government provided roughly 25 percent of what it would've cost me to attend University (they provided roughly $6,000) The amount of time it takes for my loan to be processed by the government and then sent to me is roughly between 4-8 weeks, even though they consistently say that it will only take 14 business days maximum whenever I call them The people working the loan offices and the phone when I call have almost no intellectual skills and don't even get me started on their customer service skill because you might as well hand a cell phone to a chimp and tell him to squawk, it would be the same The Maritimes did in fact deliver Harper's majority government to him in the recent election, regardless of what you think, the Maritimes have always swayed to the conservative side, check your facts, out of most recent 3 Premiers our province had has been PC. I understand the difference between Federal and Provincial elections but the ideology doesn't change between levels of government, that's for certain. Alward has continued to promise jobs, so has Harper for the Eastern provinces but we have seen little to nothing being done. Our youth (including me) have no idea what we're going to do when we graduate university, we won't be able to afford anything without borrowing more money from someone; right now it's looking very grim for our prospective youth. Recently, Nova Scotia pushed through legislation that swiped interest on student loans for students who graduated at 2004 (I think that that's the cut off year, could be wrong) - why can't we do this?
Here's a rough run down of my coverage from Student Aid
1st Year University: Full coverage, no questions asked or re-assessing required
2nd Year University: $6,000 out of a total $15,000 cost for living, eating and tuition
3rd Year University: $3,000 out of a total of $9,000 for living and tuition
4th Year University: $1,500 out of a total of $9,000 for living and tuition
Note: 3rd and 4th year I moved off of campus and got a house which reduced the cost but also the funding.
Thanks for such great, informative, replies guys.
