As a college student at an out-of-state unversity, I am very well aware of the prodicted of an increased tuition for future years. My family is on the low side of income, and in order for me to attend college (even if I had choosen my own, small in-state college) I needed to take out a large loan in my name. This puts me in thousands of dollars debt before I have even reached the age of 20 - and this is the situation that many other college students across the country are facing as well. At Colorado State, it is one of the most talked about and news reported topics that we are not recieving enough funding from the state and national levels. Infact, Colorado's universities and colleges are 834 million dollars below the average for state supported funding. This may seem like a state problem, but many colleges across the country are facing the same problems and tuition and fees keep rising from coast to coast. Although there are many scholarships available to help with this problem, it seems not enough and I believe that tuition should not be so high in the first place. Equality is the basis of our country, but equal opportunities in education are few. With the prices of higher education, middle class families struggle to send their children to prestigious universities. Education needs to be affordable.
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Some colleges can wreck your funding. There should be a different code between grad loans and bachelor loans on title IV funds
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Teacher Education Student.
Even the grant system can be elitist. Many require extremely competitive grades and test scores, which often cannot be obtained by students in lower income housing because of other responsibilities besides school these students have.
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
- George Bernard Shaw