Discover University experiment(s)

I created this twin sisters
https://i.imgur.com/sQctLEl.png

With exactly the same aspiration and traits
https://i.imgur.com/D2AEx3D.jpg

Let's see!

I am definitely looking forward to the results of your experiment. Do you already know what degree and job you are going for?

Thanks! I think I am going for the teaching career, I wanted to pick one of the new ones. But if you are curious on another one to try, please let me know, I will start them off properly tomorrow.

A new career sounds interesting to test. :)

What I am curious about is the difference in their financial situation after 21 days of paying for university versus 21 of being employed with leveling up bonuses. Were you planning on including their financial situation in your test? I said 21 days because it is 3 terms/weeks with each 4 courses, the shortest option, but maybe you are planning on less courses per term? Will the student earn money in any way while at college?

Yes! I was planning on including the finances as well to have an overall detailed view. I also plan for the sim to get her diploma in the least amount of time since I think that would be the fairest option for the test.
So, the student won't earn any money during college because she will be very busy trying to get the best grades and to finish uni in 3 terms.

I couldn't wait any longer to start off the experiment so I squeezed into my real life day 30 minutes to set the twins up.

On Sunday at 08:04
Marla applied for a job in the education career (no cost)
Carla applied for University (-75 simoleons), she also applied for the 2 available scholarships ("education for all" and "Britechester resident")

First Monday:

Marla started work under the "work hard" option since I want both of them to try their best. She got a promotion already and earned 601 simoleons that day and is now level 2 in the career.

Carla received the acceptance letter for university at 10am and was granted 500 simoleons for one of the scholarship + 350 for the other. She enrolled straight away in UBrite (Psychology, to become a professor) and took a loan, now she has -115 on credit since she will be studying from home so I can play with the sister simultaneously, a dorm would have been a lot more money.

It's been a long time since I have bookmarked a thread.
Thanks for doing this. It sounds very interesting.

I was really disappointed that sims aren't rewarded any extra personality traits for attending University.
I think it will make it part of my game play to cheat them through certain aspirations to get the bonus traits and the resulting satisfaction points.

Most likely any aspirations that I don't plan on pursuing, but could use the reward trait.
I could also use the satisfaction points to buy retraiting potions to evolve their personality.

https://i.imgur.com/1aniFQf.png

It is Wednesday (of the first term) and Marla has already reached level 3 of the education career, on that day she didn't even need to work hard to get the promotion.
Carla on the other hand is struggling to get her homework, term papers, and presentations done on time.

First week overview
https://i.imgur.com/sOhhnve.png

So far things seem to go as expected.
Are your sims doing anything special in the weekend or just wait for the next week?