My friend is going to Yale, and the cost is closer to $60,000 in 2015. So either Yale changed its prices drastically or this info is wrong and shouldn't be taken seriously.
stark, the picture shows 'only the tuition cost at Yale for the academic year 2014-2015,' the cost of attendance however, was a total $63000 which includes tuition ($45,800), room ($7,800), board ($6,200), and books and personal expenses ($3,450).
For the academic year 2015-2016, the school of architecture has a 'tuition cost' of about $46500.
http://admissions.yale.edu/faq/what-current-tuition-yale
You should be able to make more than minimum wage by the time you're in college. I agree college is way too expensive either way, but minimum wage is for high school. By college you should be making more.
I'm not arguing with the point. You still wouldn't be able to pay for it. I'm just clarifying.
"minimum wage is for high school"?????
you make it sound like there are boatloads of well-paying jobs available to people in their late-teens/early twenties (the demographic that makes up MOST of college attendance.) when in fact, there aren't. The options are minimum wage. Maybe a dollar more here or there, but mostly minimum wage.
Minimum wage is supposed to at least cover basic necessities. For all ages.
You won't be living in a mansion, but you will have food, shelter, light, warmth, and water. The idea is for said high schooler to save money BEFORE he or she has bills, and can pay for college without working them to hard while in school.
Much like when in high school and working, you won't miss school at all and you can only legally work x amount of hours because you need sleep and down time.
I worked 50 hours a week at an overnight job for 5 years because I didn't want to graduate with debt. I don't wish that on anybody. It seriously sucked having about 2 hours a day to myself at any given point.
There, there wolfgang_a_mozart. I'm sure non-fuckboys, whose parents help them are in debt too. But thank you for your well-researched, in-depth analysis on the issue.
granted, quite a large group of the people who go to schools like Yale are A: Payed for by Rich Parents/Grandparents or B: Given financial aid (Yale doesn't give scholarships). This post serves a good point but is unreasonable in that way. Also, not everyones gonna be paid minimum wage (duh). Obviously, the price of college is unreasonable, but so is this post.
1. Major in something that pays better than minimum wage.
2. Go somewhere other than Yale. There are decent community colleges...you have to live without sports teams and some other things, but if that's mandatory for your college experience, realize you have to pay for it.
3. You have to pay for food and a place to live whether you're in college or not. So including room and board is an expense you have either way.
4. There are so many more opportunities now than years ago...distance learning, online study, etc. I *wish* I could be college age now vs. way back when I earned a degree.
You don't need to go to an Ivy League school.
You don't even need to go to college right after you graduate.
And expecting to get a well paying job just for college is stupid.
If you don't save a lot of money or have much legitimate work experience, than of course you'll get screwed over by higher education.
Raising minimum wage or having the government pay tuition would only make matters worse.
If I went full time to the largest state school in Ohio, and earned minimum wage, I would have to work 9 hours a day, 365 days a year to pay tuition.
(Math: Tuition=$26621/365(days in a year)= 72.93 (Amount to earn per day)
72.93/8.10 (minimum wage)= 9
Okay, famousone. Save money beforehand. That's the most obvious thing to do, obviously. You're right but let us take into account the other side of the 20 somethings who do not have the money saved beforehand, who probably ventured out in the real world to earn their way to the top or those kids whose parents can simply not afford to send them to any college. You do realise there are countries and I must add countries with no way near close to the top ten economies, where kids go to college right after high school. They don't work for about 2 years to save up money so they can go to college. And obviously no one expects to be appointed as the president at Louvre just so they can pay for college. These costs, do you realise, are insanely high? Which in turn drown one in debts. I'm not saying they should make college a free-to-attend institution. There are countries where college going people are not in debt and yet work to pay for college whilst attending it.
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1. Tuition is too expensive in America. Part of that can be attributed to the government backed student loans. Since the government backed them, tuition has gone up in cost exponentially. (Interesting side note: the same thing happened with housing costs after mortgages came into being and got more popular.)
2. Community colleges are a great way to go to school for cheaper than a regular school.
For the academic year 2015-2016, the school of architecture has a 'tuition cost' of about $46500.
http://admissions.yale.edu/faq/what-current-tuition-yale
I'm not arguing with the point. You still wouldn't be able to pay for it. I'm just clarifying.
you make it sound like there are boatloads of well-paying jobs available to people in their late-teens/early twenties (the demographic that makes up MOST of college attendance.) when in fact, there aren't. The options are minimum wage. Maybe a dollar more here or there, but mostly minimum wage.
You won't be living in a mansion, but you will have food, shelter, light, warmth, and water. The idea is for said high schooler to save money BEFORE he or she has bills, and can pay for college without working them to hard while in school.
Much like when in high school and working, you won't miss school at all and you can only legally work x amount of hours because you need sleep and down time.
But we obviously see a different reality.
2. Go somewhere other than Yale. There are decent community colleges...you have to live without sports teams and some other things, but if that's mandatory for your college experience, realize you have to pay for it.
3. You have to pay for food and a place to live whether you're in college or not. So including room and board is an expense you have either way.
4. There are so many more opportunities now than years ago...distance learning, online study, etc. I *wish* I could be college age now vs. way back when I earned a degree.
You don't even need to go to college right after you graduate.
And expecting to get a well paying job just for college is stupid.
If you don't save a lot of money or have much legitimate work experience, than of course you'll get screwed over by higher education.
Raising minimum wage or having the government pay tuition would only make matters worse.
(Math: Tuition=$26621/365(days in a year)= 72.93 (Amount to earn per day)
72.93/8.10 (minimum wage)= 9
2. Community colleges are a great way to go to school for cheaper than a regular school.