Colleges basically suck every penny they can out of you. For starters, there are many schools that charge you an application fee that can sometimes be nonrefundable. So they are taking your money before you are even accepted into the school. Then if you are accepted, they charge you for everything under the sun like room and board, outrageously priced meal plans, parking on campus, overpriced books, classes and so much more. After charging you thousands of dollars for all of that the school will still have the audacity to put limitations on accessibility to things. They will limit or not even provide soap and paper towels for every bathroom on campus and will only provide hand sanitizer. Also, they will put limits on your meal plans such as the number of times you are allowed to swipe your card a week. So, say you got 14 meals a week and you only used 10, those other four meals don’t roll over to the next week they basically disappear.
College is a place that prepares you for the real world and will better your chances in getting a job. But, college doesn’t prepare you for all the debt you will graduate with because you had to take out a bunch of loans so you could pay to go to college.
You forgot to put in the part where after you buy the overpriced books and it's the end of the semester the books value goes from $150 to the book store buying it back for $5. It's an absolute joke.
ReplyDeleteI couldn't agree more. Especially when classes are cancelled, we should be getting that money back. Our teachers are getting paid and the college is getting our money and we don't even have class? It's ridiculous. People wonder why the number of high school graduates that go to college has decreased.
ReplyDeleteCompletely agree. I am writing a paper on this subject and it irks me everytime I find out a new 'bad' fact about college. The interest rates rose, making college way more expensive than it once was. You know that it was only 3.4% in interest rates in 2007? Democratic Party did that. Congress needs to lower expenses for students because this may very well have most citizens in debt. Hopefully interest rates wont raise back to 6.8% for 2012-2013 year!
ReplyDeleteHigher college costs are a form of class warfare. Starting in 1994, state and federal funding for higher education has been dramatically slashed.
ReplyDeleteHave you noticed that student loans cannot be discharged via bankruptcy, and that any outstanding balance will be taken out of Social Security? It's a form of debt slavery that the 1% is using to transfer money into their greedy hands.
I completely agree. I do not understand how college is so expensive when we spend less time in a classroom than we did in high school. Where does all the money go? Also, I'd like to add that when teachers provide you to buy textbooks that cost over $100, the polite thing to do would be to actually use them. I am so tired of purchasing my books for my classes and then rarely use them. We are not made out of money and every dollar we can save, counts. They say we need a college degree in order to be successful, but I know so many people that cannot even have this opportunity because they do not have the money to fulfill four years at college. This needs to change.
ReplyDeleteIf you want to know where the money goes, the Bursar's office will be glad to go over the FSU budget with you.
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