ghbarnaby2
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I am currently in school for my masters and will be applying to medical school later on in the fall of this year. I have watched the price of college in my small life span go up dramatically - and the value of that education fall just as dramatically. I was reading an article today and wanted to share it because I feel that it speaks a little to the craziness of college costs.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout...duates-why-education-cost-much-092117028.html
What scares me most about this article is that her parents make a combined 57,000 and make "too much" for her to get a full ride to a university. They live in Baltimore. A city. A big city. I don't know where her family was going to pull the money from to pay for this but apparently the school did.
At the end of the article, she laments attending community college over a four year university, I feel this issue needs to be addressed as well. What's wrong with a community college? Sometimes they are better or just as good as a four year university as well as less costly. Why are we not encouraging people to get into trades? Apprenticeships? Things of that nature? Have we made the wrong choice by focusing on the "you must go to college" scheme?
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout...duates-why-education-cost-much-092117028.html
What scares me most about this article is that her parents make a combined 57,000 and make "too much" for her to get a full ride to a university. They live in Baltimore. A city. A big city. I don't know where her family was going to pull the money from to pay for this but apparently the school did.
At the end of the article, she laments attending community college over a four year university, I feel this issue needs to be addressed as well. What's wrong with a community college? Sometimes they are better or just as good as a four year university as well as less costly. Why are we not encouraging people to get into trades? Apprenticeships? Things of that nature? Have we made the wrong choice by focusing on the "you must go to college" scheme?