Editorial Rough Draft

College cost these days

With the cost of college these days on the rise.  Students have been held back from applying to go to their dream college because of that college raising their cost of tuition.  I believe that colleges and the government need to help pay and or find some ways to make college more accessible and financially easier for students. This way the students that want to further their education can go to the college that they want to.

I think there are four things about college that really caught my eye. 

First, the overall cost of college.  The overall cost of college has gone up 6.6% since 2007.  This is crazy just to think about how much college is going to cost when we start having kids. This is going to be outrageous. 

Second, the cost difference from in state tuition compared to out of state tuition.  In state tuition is much cheaper than if you were to out of state for college unless you go to a state where reciprocity is available. That will cut your out of state cost down by quite a bit but it will still cost you lot of money.  Staying in state could save you a lot more money and I am sure that if you were to go out of state for college that a college in your home state would have the major that you want to go into.  This is a great way to save money.  

I was always told this and am still being told this “It doesn’t matter where you go to college; the only thing that matters is what you do after you’re done with your college education.”

Final thoughts is that I think scholarships and national grants are probably the best way to get your college cost down to as low as it could go.  You can never save enough money.  Take advantage of scholarships and national grants because it is all free money that does not have to be paid back.  You can never go wrong with free money that does not need to be paid back unlike all the different loans that you do have to pay back.