WAIT A SECOND...
(^ That is a link to a blood-boiling article)
When I began my freshman year at college, tuition cost me $8,775.00 a year plus another $13,000-$14,000 on housing and books
Senior year tuition will cost me $13,970.00. Do I qualify for any kind of financial aid? NOPE. Have I ever? NOPE. I am middle-class America, the daughter of a combined income that is too high for financial aid and too low for “Hey darling, just deposited $10,000 to your account for the quarter. Dad says hello” ..or “I’m a studio art major.” (I’m not a studio art major, so relax).
If UC Regents pulls another incremental increase on us (16% every year!?!), students expected to graduate in 2016 will pay a little over $22,000 in tuition alone. I will be long gone, absorbing the scathing costs of grad school by then, but still! Over $40,000 for a public school education?!?
I just deleted a paragraph-long rant that eventually labeled me as a capitalist, because I don’t qualify for grants that my parents contribute tax dollars to.. When my children turn 18, I’ll be sure to suddenly become financially disadvantaged. #bitter