College is just so darn expensive! Being a student, you have to worry about bills, insurance, books, etc. Then, when you plan on going to college, you have to add on for your tuition, and room and board, and then for your gas, and other misc. expenses. It just doesn't stop!! It's scary when you want to go to college and yet know that you can't afford it. If you can't afford it, what is the usual answer? Take out a loan! But wow, do you really want to take out a loan? Yes. Because this is your education we're talking about.
So now it brings me back to the question of why college is so expensive, and if the world is so adament on making students go to school to have a career, then why is it so expensive to go about it? Students should be focused on their academics, not focused on how we should pay off our education. It's stressful enough to have to worry about our studies but to add the pressures in paying it off when we're done is crazy!
Why are books so expensive these days? And why is tuition so high? Why oh why do we have to pay a high price for having goals, ambitions, and plans for the future? It's like their is a price to pay when we want to make something of ourselves... and that price, is debt.
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it takes money to make money.....
they dont want poor people or those with bad credit to go to a REPUTABLE 4 year university.
Stanford University however is starting a program that voids the tuition for students who do not meet financial standards. That means if your smart enough, but your family doesnt make enough, YOUR GOOD!! I think their tuiton is like $45,000/year
everyone who needs a scholarship apply to STANFORD!!
I think a part of the problem is that students have a repuation for not voting, so our representatives in the government don't fight for our causes (one of them being tuition). From what I know, European countries, as well as lots of other countries, provide University education for next to nothing in cost.
Write to your state and congressional representatives-- and bug the hell out of them.
European countries also only let certain people into university, and charge plenty in taxes to offset the cost of educating a few in college.
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The same isn't true about India and other Asian countries where tuition is quite low and the government doesn't lean socialist.
But it's true; by 9th grade, it's decided whether or not you're smart enough to attend University in Europe.
I don't know much about India, but I was under the impression that college in India was something reserved for the elite, as it meant that you could afford to send someone in your family to school and lose the income they would otherwise provide. While it may seem cheap by our standards, pretty much everything is cheap. You can get an entire meal for like 5 cents.
But what I know about the Indian system consists of a single lecture from a Fulbright scholar in India.
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You can get an entire meal for like 5 cents.
That's actually not true of India; while their currency is worth less than ours, it still takes roughly the same amount of money to buy something if you were to convert currencies.
In any case, it's also not true that college is reserved for the elite. It's equal opportunity, based on a test. Where you score on that test tells you where you can go. And university education is cheap by their standards, not just by ours (source: my brother-in-law). Same is true for Singapore, except I don't know how much purchasing power their currency has.
That could be it. I guess it works both ways. But how could students feel confident in what the government does especially w hen it comes to their own money? Ideally, if money for school wasn't so much of a problem, we'd have less stress, and thus worry more about other things like what the government is doing, than worrying about the money for books, tuition, bills, rent, etc. I think the reason why most students aren't voting, is because they really don't feel confident in what the government could do for them. But that's a different topic all together.
If going to the state and writing about this issue is what it takes to get heard, then that is what I should do! :)
Although for the student the point of going to school is for education, it is like any other service. They aren't just their for you, it is a business, they are there to make some money, that is why its so damn expensive, if they weren't they wouldn't exist.