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College Education Benefits

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I am writing you in regards to you’re a bill that you are supporting “Recognizing the challenges and burdens associated with the rising cost of college education” that was introduced to congress on January 27, 2015. You make very good points on the topic and I agree with your views and the fact that I am in college now, helps me relate to this topic even more. I am a 24 year old junior at the University of West Georgia but I am from out of state so my tuition is higher than most and because I am an independent student it makes it harder for me to get financial aid. I originally started college in 2009 fall at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania where the tuition was high but it has gone up since then. I stayed there for a year and couldn’t …show more content…

The benefits of community college and other small colleges and intuitions are great for going on to a four year university after you leave the two year intuition, however if the community college or two year school is the end of your road to bettering your education then it becomes harder to compete with the students coming out of the four year intuition. The America’s College Promise Proposal is also a great opportunity for more young adults to better their education after high school especially if they want to start off at a small school and work their way up to a big school or university. The fact that college loan debt for students exceeds one trillion dollars is extremely absurd to me because even if u don’t finish you still have to pay that money back and in order to finish, in most instances depending on the help u get from your support system you may have to keep borrowing money just to stay in school. Students and graduates must go through so much debt to obtain a degree to get a job just to pay the loans back is confusing to me because if the price of college was lower than there would probably wouldn’t be so many people in trouble and out of work with very little

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