Upper Cost Of College Students

Many middle to lower class families cannot afford to send their kids to school and with Ivy League schools like Harvard and Princeton giving out generous financial packages to their student, who mostly come from wealthy background. The poorer students are on the losing end because they are not given the opportunity for aid. As Terry Hartle, the senior vice president of the American Council of Education, says, "Smart poor kids go to college at the same rate as stupid rich kids." What this is saying is that the wealthy families have vastly more opportunity to succeed in the college system even though they have equal or lesser smarts. Well respected schools such as NYU are now admitting students based on the financial fit not by merit.

College tuition is very expensive and many people are unable to attend due to the overall cost of tuition, books, room and board. The high price of a college education is unfair to the bright students who have limited resources. These students are at a disadvantage because of lack of funds. The United States should find a way to provide free tuition to all students who want an education.

Ever since you were little, your parents have been talking about this wonderful thing called college. They told you that you have to go there to get an education before you can get a good job. Many kids have dreamed of going to college, and being able to get the job of their dreams. By putting in hard work and dedication to good grades in high school, you had high hopes that you would be able to get into an Ivy League school. The American dream of being able to go to college to get a degree is sliding away from many people due to rising costs. With increasing tuition prices and job loss, the college dream is slowly and surely slipping away from many students and their families.

The trend continues with the skyrocketing prices of college tuitions. This is not an uncommon issue the days of college tuition being affordable are slowly fading into the past. This conundrum has brought to light the idea of using tax money to help pay tuition. This idea has vast potential, but can it reach its potential.

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Bernie Sanders, senator of the state of Vermont said, “The cost of college education today is so high that many young people are giving up their dream of going to college, while many others are graduating deeply in debt” (“Brainy Quote”). Each year students take out loans to pay for a college education. Is it really necessary? They are just going to be a statistic. I believe everyone should not go to college. College is not for everyone.

The author talks about college cost, and the effect it has on students and on how times it takes longer to graduate. This is an important topic because college cost has been a problem for many individuals for decades and it still is. College cost is something that shapes people's lives and it worries them because college cost is what determines if they're going to continue going to college. It’s something that people should take lightly because college is pretty expensive. According to the advocacy group complete college America, it cost 63,718 for one extra year to attend college. For students who take longer to finish school because of certain requisites, it becomes a toll because of the cost. According to Norton Field Guide to writing by Richard Bullock and Maureen Daly Goggin found a report on Los Angeles-bases campaigns for college opportunity, saying students who attend school 6 years instead of 4 years will lose 110,900 dollars in their lifetime. Many people in the work field and colleges expect students to attend school for four years. According to the NFGW, “nearly nine out of 10 freshmen think they will earn their bachelor degree within the traditional four years.” Yet In the NFGW quotes the U.S Department of Education and they report that “about 45 percent won’t have finished.”

In times, nowadays college is one of the main ways to become successful in this world. The thing is college isn't for everyone. Some kids simply do not qualify because of grades but a major problem is tuition. On average tuition can range from 20,000 dollars to 40,000 dollars a year. Add this up for 4 years and you are looking at about 120,000 dollars for a 4-year degree. This price is what can take away an opportunity to go to college. In 2011-12, the NCAA reported $871.6 million in revenue. That could fully cover about 7,263 students, so imagine if this price was split each year for students, this would help lower the cost of tuition. Student athletes already get a full scholarship and most of the money received yearly by the NCAA is from

One of the biggest questions a high-school student will be asked is about their future career. What most students pursing a college degree fail to realize is the opportunity cost they might have to sacrifice. It all comes down to the individual because unless the person is a professional basketball player, then college might not be worth the opportunity cost for that said individual. Unfortunately, not everyone is a professional athlete so their opportunity cost for college might not be so easy to determine. Also the student must take into consideration what degree they want to pursue and see how the job market is like. For instance, an art degree may not be the best choice to go with in today’s economy. The CNBC article that brought an interest to this topic is “What’s the

Some people believe that the cost of college is too high, but other people believe that it is not high enough. If you are trying to go to college and don’t have a scholarship, where else can you get the money from? If you don’t have a job you won’t be able to pay for college. They should make it where if you want to go to college you can, for a price that everyone can afford. Basically, most people in college are there on scholarships, academic or athletic. I believe that the cost of college is way too high and it is unfair to the people that can’t afford it. Just because you don’t have enough money that should not stop you from trying to get a greater level of education. The cost of college is too high because of the cost

In Daniel Golden’s The Price of Admission: How America 's Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges--and Who Gets Left outside the Gates, he makes the argument of how Ivy League schools are being unfair to the academically advanced students who don’t fall into a special social category the universities are rejecting to make room for mediocre students with high status or pleasing characteristics. He explains how Ivy League schools are accepting the rich, the legacies, the famous, the athletically strong, the faculty children, or the minorities over excelling students with no special prestige.

The topic of college tuition is one you can hear almost anywhere you go. The cost of college is definitely on a steady rise. With the rise in the price of college the demand of college graduates in the work force is also on the rise. It is known fact that the higher you go in your college education the better job you can come out in the end with; but with a longer education is longer payments.

These expensive cities, such as Washington, D.C. and New York, appealing to what Lind calls in “Intellectuals Are Freaks”, “bohemian rich kids”, (Lind 2) and limiting opportunities for intellectual growth in other locations where money isn’t as plenty. Students that come from a lower socioeconomic status tend to encounter a wall of resistance that may prevent them from applying to colleges they feel incapable of attending and succeeding at, due to the fear of inferiority that arises from already being at a set disadvantage compared to students of the upper-class society. Studies (“Why Economic Disadvantage Becomes Educational Disadvantage” by Sam Fulwood III) show that only 3 percent of students from 146 of the most-selective public and private colleges are from the bottom socioeconomic quartile compared to the 67 percent of students from the top income quartile who attend these same schools. Here, the economic divide suggests a educational divide as well that weakens the education

Hello class of 2016! We’re at a point of our high school career when we are looking at colleges and thinking about possible careers we want to pursue in the near future. But has the price tag on certain colleges have you thinking “I can’t afford that”, and made you look the other way? Well, I am here today to show you that the price of college tuition is an investment and will benefit you in your future careers. My opponent here might say that college costs have been increasing, or prestigious universities have priced out students from lower income and middle class and maybe add in that colleges are spending on unnecessary things like luxurious dormitories and non academic facilities. Well, I would say that colleges education is an investment and returns financially due to the better jobs and the higher salaries in your future career. Although the tuition of college has been increasing every year it is actually in the benefit of the student. It is unrealistic to expect colleges to reduce tuition while still providing the best possible learning experience.

Prospective students tend not to attend college because of the rising cost of college tuition, most of those students are intelligent but the obstacle that is in their way is the cost of tuition. College tuition has increased tremendously from past cost of attendance and now the question is why tuition is so expensive and could college ever be reasonable again? Current students are concerned about the increasing college tuition and it is becoming an additional burden which could hinder them from counting their education. According to NPR, an article called how the cost of college went from affordable to sky-high, “The high cost of college tuition for students and in specific states that have been affected tremendously by the rising cost of