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Two things that would help state college expenses.
1. We do not have to send every person to college. Make trade school just as available (grants etc) to high school graduates as college. It costs far less to send a boy to vocational school and he would graduate with a useful skill where he can get a job.
2. For those that are on state aid for college, limit it to 4 years. This 5 and 6 year stint while kids find themselves or join a protest or two is putting to large a strain on state subsidized colleges.
Maybe I woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning but your opening comment sounded a little condescending. I hope I am wrong. If I'm not, all I can say is please don't do that. I have never been disrespectful to anyone on this site and I don't like it when someone disrespects me or my silly screen name.
As for my comments about the vote to increase tuition. I still believe in this current economy, now is not the time for colleges to add more debt onto the backs of its students and their families.
No disrespect meant here... If interpreted as disrespect, I apologize.
My point was just to state that there are places to go to college that are (relatively reasonable), and are still good schools. I know college is expensive, but people don't have to shell out $200K to get a good education. Maybe $30K (which is still not a drop in the bucket), but should be affordable by many more people.
ha, most of new england is in the top ten. i'm not surprised. it's largely due to cost of living - housing is expensive.
i read somewhere that NH offers the least amount of financial aid out of all the states. i believe it. i was at UNH for one semester recently; in-state tuition cost me 13K, and i didn't take out all i could have because i had a job and lived frugally. they just had their state funding cut in half so i'm sure the tuition will skyrocket even more. i would hate to be a student there right now.
ha, most of new england is in the top ten. i'm not surprised. it's largely due to cost of living - housing is expensive.
i read somewhere that NH offers the least amount of financial aid out of all the states. i believe it. i was at UNH for one semester recently; in-state tuition cost me 13K, and i didn't take out all i could have because i had a job and lived frugally. they just had their state funding cut in half so i'm sure the tuition will skyrocket even more. i would hate to be a student there right now.
New Hampshire is one of the no sales tax States. They make it up by having higher property taxes and other taxes. NH is kinda small for a State, but whatever you think about its size, it still has a low population. I mean, pretty much any major U.S. city is going to have a larger population than the state of NH. Or Vermont, Maine, definitely Rhode Island, and possibly Connecticut. Heck, probably all of those states combined!
Two things that would help state college expenses.
1. We do not have to send every person to college. Make trade school just as available (grants etc) to high school graduates as college. It costs far less to send a boy to vocational school and he would graduate with a useful skill where he can get a job.
2. For those that are on state aid for college, limit it to 4 years. This 5 and 6 year stint while kids find themselves or join a protest or two is putting to large a strain on state subsidized colleges.
1. Grants are available for trade schools, vo-techs, community colleges whatever---you just have to make very little money to qualify for them because the schools don't cost very much.
2. Most kids in state universities are in school for more than 4 years not because they are trying to "find themselves" but because the schools are underfunded and students can't get into classes to allow them to graduate in 4 years. At any of the major flagship schools across the nation you can pretty much guarantee you will be there at least 4 1/2 years because of the registration issues, unless you take a lot of summer school classes.
2. Most kids in state universities are in school for more than 4 years not because they are trying to "find themselves" but because the schools are underfunded and students can't get into classes to allow them to graduate in 4 years. At any of the major flagship schools across the nation you can pretty much guarantee you will be there at least 4 1/2 years because of the registration issues, unless you take a lot of summer school classes.
State universities are looking more unattractive day by day. Not only do many students get stuck with loans, but now they have to go for longer? Why would you go to a state school?
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