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    Is College Too Expensive?

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    Is College Too Expensive? A very popular topic these days is College tuition. For what seems to be ages, people didn’t give much attention to the cost of tuition. However, in current times theres been a dramatic change. It seems that everyday, several people are coming to the harsh realization of how high tuition has gotten over the years and they wish to see a change. In this essay, I shall attempt to cover a very serious and hard topic. I say that because in the process of finding information

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    Yang 2/5/16 p.7 Word Count:1,550 School Tuition: Government’s perspective In the US, free education is available for everyone in the social class from the rich to the financially unstable. However, when students apply for community colleges, families are left with three choice: to pay the full cost of tuition, to apply for financial assistance, to apply for loans. Community college tuitions have been increasing from 1982, and since then it has been increasing more

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    thousands of dollars for a college education, that will put them into debt for most of their lives. College tuition should be provided and funded by the U.S. government via taxpayers because college provides the skills and resources for these young adults to mature and are productive members of society. A college education has become a Vidal part of today’s working-class society. Having a high school diploma doesn’t seem to cut it anymore. Most jobs require some sort of college education for entry level

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    expected to follow the path of day care, grade school, middle school, high school and hopefully college. Growing up in America today, the importance of education is stressed starting at the earliest stages of development. In a world with a competitive job market and with citizens who want to make the most money that they can, a college education is key in success. For some students, financing college is not a problem. Money should not be a factor in the student's decision-making process when choosing

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    College students with debt College debt can stunt most students from pursuing their college dream and going to their school of choice. Students get scared of the word debt and the numbers that they would be dealing with outside of college. Students are putting aside going to their dream schools because of the fear of how much debt they will get into after college. There are many reasons why people don’t pursue college, or just from not being able to afford it. Students go back and look at not going

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    Free college is a great dream, but not feasible. A higher education benefits not only the individual, but our country and economy as a whole. Higher tuition fees could affect students’ decision to not go to college, the government should pass a bill that limits some of the unnecessary fees that colleges charge students. The government should pay for the college education of its citizens because it is no longer an option to rely on scholarships to pay for college, they are becoming harder to get and

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    “A college degree is the new high school diploma” (Sanders). The United States’ society values higher education as high school students are constantly told to be perfect students so they can get into an amazing college and have stellar lives. They are told that if they do not get a college degree, they will be stuck in a minimum wage job for the rest of their lives. But, this path to college and a better life is unattainable for many Americans because of the cost. People can pay for college and leave

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    Rising Tuition Prices Essay

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    Rising Tuition Prices The skyrocketing price of college tuition is causing a tremendous concern over whether higher education will be a viable financial concept to the average citizen over the next decades. Some families have opted to explore different means of obtaining a higher education for their children as these costs escalate. There is overwhelming evidence that colleges need to restructure the way they are run because tuition prices are increasing at a rapid rate causing changes in the

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    community college should be free. This gives the option to students that can't afford a 4 year university, to still being able to go to college and hopefully after two years transferring out. Community college usually helps with coming up with a plan, once you enter a 4 year university, and I am more than positive that not having to worry about paying, would relieve a lot of stress for lower income students. In the article they talk about financial aid when it comes to community college. Usually students

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    Many students will soon drop out of college due to the constantly rising cost of higher education. Research shows that both the two-year and four-year education system in the U.S. has experienced a significant increase in college tuition over the last three decades. If this trend is allowed to go on unchallenged, the likelihood of most students being unable to meet the high cost will be very high in the coming years as there are already notable signs of this happening. According to education expert

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