College Expense

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Congrats! You’ve been accepted to the college of your choice; now all that’s left to figure out is how you’ll pay for college. Unfortunately, college costs don’t end at tuition and room and board you’ll also have to pay for textbooks, meals, transportation, and a computer with working internet. We have been told that we live in a free country, but if our country is so called “free,” how come paying for an education isn’t? The most important in my case and many low income students is trying to attend college and being able to pay without going into debt. I find myself, since 2010, hearing the same stories of previous college graduate, who have gone into debt by the time they reached their sophomore year of college. Excited to venture out into the “college life,” I begin to notice that paying for college isn’t like paying a couple of fees in high school. Although college has brought many advantages to our society, paying for it hasn’t.

By the age of fourteen we enter a whole different atmosphere, to than find out that right as we’re getting comfortable we have to leave our high school life and start fresh in college, but we notice that college is just like high school, except this time around we have to pay to get an education in a “free” country. We’re told, by our parents or administration, “Don’t mess up, it’ll cost you in the long run,” do we listen? Some us do, some of us don’t, than we realize when senior year comes around, that we literally my actually have to pay for college. The cost of attending college has become 500% more expansive now then it was in 1985. By the increase in college tuition and the income of low income families causes daily less and less students to achieve a college degree, unfortunately having to...

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...ips, but only 2,000 out of the 40% admitted are awarded scholarships. Someone is winning those scholarships and it could be you for just applying early, but the odds of winning however, remain limited, sounds more like winning a scholarship? Not much chance of that.

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