So who here actually goes to or has gone to college?

When I was in high school my teachers and guidance counselors encouraged me to go to college, get a degree in something so I can get a good job. But none of them made it clear that the average price of a bachelor's degree costs 60,000-80,000 dollars!! whaa! That's outrageous... How do people actually manage to stay in school?



It's also a proven statistical fact that 52% of all incoming freshman will NOT graduate. Whether they flunk out, cant afford it anymore, they never have the time to finish, but yea that's a really big hole of debt right there ouch!



ok so the average income for your highest level of education goes as follows:

High School Diploma - $20,000/yr

Associates Degree - $40,000/yr

Bachelor's Degree - $60,000/yr

Master's Degree - $80,000/yr



Alls I have is a high school diploma, I'm 19 and I'm ready to move out of my house asap! I'm looking to get a full time job delivering pizza at domino's and get my own apartment. What I'm also gonna look into is trying to take online classes, but before I go to a very expensive school I want to start at a community college and get my English and math classes and stuff like that out of the way first, but the only way that will work is if I take community college classes online, hopefully it works. With community college you can get an associate's degree for probably alittle more than $3,000. Now that's a good price.

Any tips anybody?So who here actually goes to or has gone to college?
Why don"t you fill out the fafsa? Then you could get grants and work study for school? My school is all paid for by the grants and I have one scholarship.I don't know if your family makes a lot though. I work at papa johns, and my co-worker works full time and has to work for her dad all the time to and barely affords to stay in her own place. But we are in seattle with higher rent, so I don't know, you might have to get a roommate. I would try going to a community college. They have classes you can take online. I took about half my classes online. I would say stay at your parents house. I know you probably don't want to. I am 22 years old and I live on my own - I also nanny. I wish I was still at home. I have no spending money, and some months I can barely make it. Well, good luck to you and what you decide to do.So who here actually goes to or has gone to college?
its called financial aid. rarely do people pay full. its true, the higher your degree, the more you make, but it also depends on what subjectSo who here actually goes to or has gone to college?
Students apply for financial aid (FAFSA) to get grants and loans. For the loans - there are two main types. One is where the government pay the interests and the other one is you pay the interests - however, either way after college - within certain months you would have to pay back the loan. Ways to pay back is to get a job. A job in their Major.
I agree with what others said. Fill out the FAFSA and see if you qualify for anything. Although I also think there is nothing wrong with getting your basic classes out of the way at a community college. Just make sure that whatever school you want to go to will accept credits from the community college you plan to go to.

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