In 2012, 66.3% of high school graduates in the United States applied for college. Approximately sixty six percent of high school graduates go to college after they graduate from high school. The colleges that these students go to is decided upon many factors the students grades, ranking, GPA, and sat score. Though there is another factor that deeply effects what college these students go to and that is the price of the college. The average cost for one year of state college is $22,261 and for private school it is $43,289. The least amount of school to graduate with a degree from college is four years and most of college students go for six to get their masters because there are not many jobs that only require four years of college.
The cost of college has become absurd. Most graduates are in debt before they even start working and with the economy at the level that it is at the moment those graduates are likely not to have a job right when they graduate. Most parents try to help their children pay for college but they can only help so much. There are chances of scholarships but not students will be offered one. Young adults should be able to go to the college they wish if they worked hard enough to be accepted the cost of the college should not get in the way of which students actually attend the they desire college or not.
The frightening part about the pricing in college is that it is still rising. Within eighteen years college is predicted to be 130,000 dollars a year for a private school. With prices so high it will be impossible for college students to graduate without debt. The price of a private school for four years is equivalent to the price of an apartment or even a townhouse. Being saddled with student loans is bad enough–coupled with rent or mortgage, it is an utter nightmare.
Education is a necessity in life, but is the prices people have to pay worth it if their degrees cannot provide them with a job?