by Pedro Velazquez
We grow up being told, “Try your hardest in school. It’ll help you when you’re older,” but in reality, going to school may leave you struggling. After the four years, you’ll have your degree, but you’ll also be trying to pay off thousands in loans and debts with no job.
According to TopUniversities, with everything accounted for, on average you’re gonna have to shed 21 thousand dollars to attend a 4 year in the US. Unless your parents are well set, this is gonna be hard to pay for considering that SmartAsset‘s research found that people who fall into the 16-19 year age group only made 21k a year.
Now you have to look for ways to help pay for tuition, student loans and scholarships. If you are a 3.5-4.0 GPA student, you have roughly a 20 percent chance of receiving an academic scholarship, according to The Washington Post. Student loans can be a curse in disguise because they help you right now, but considering the average graduate in the Class of 2016 owed 37 thousand dollars.
Jose Estrada, a 19 year old from Los Banos, knows firsthand how difficult this aspect of college can be. He attended UC Merced for two semesters, but decided it would be best if he stopped going to help his family out now rather than later.
“I thought about it for a long time. After a semester, I knew I wasn’t gonna be able to pay for the next semester, let alone the next 3 years, but I still went because I didn’t want to let anyone down. They invested so much in me and I was the person they would brag about to their co-workers and friends,” said Jose
According to a survey of 30 students conducted at Yerba Buena High School, 66 percent of students say that college is worth the time and financial, while the rest of the subjects said that it is either not worth it or they don’t know the answer to that question.
That all ties back to the idea of university and it’s worth from a financial standpoint. Many people like Jose go to college, but fail to keep up with it. Obviously, if you have the time and money go for it, but this was for the people that can relate to Jose’s situation.
According to TopUniversities, with everything accounted for, on average you’re gonna have to shed 21 thousand dollars to attend a 4 year in the US. Unless your parents are well set, this is gonna be hard to pay for considering that SmartAsset‘s research found that people who fall into the 16-19 year age group only made 21k a year.
Now you have to look for ways to help pay for tuition, student loans and scholarships. If you are a 3.5-4.0 GPA student, you have roughly a 20 percent chance of receiving an academic scholarship, according to The Washington Post. Student loans can be a curse in disguise because they help you right now, but considering the average graduate in the Class of 2016 owed 37 thousand dollars.
Jose Estrada, a 19 year old from Los Banos, knows firsthand how difficult this aspect of college can be. He attended UC Merced for two semesters, but decided it would be best if he stopped going to help his family out now rather than later.
“I thought about it for a long time. After a semester, I knew I wasn’t gonna be able to pay for the next semester, let alone the next 3 years, but I still went because I didn’t want to let anyone down. They invested so much in me and I was the person they would brag about to their co-workers and friends,” said Jose
According to a survey of 30 students conducted at Yerba Buena High School, 66 percent of students say that college is worth the time and financial, while the rest of the subjects said that it is either not worth it or they don’t know the answer to that question.
That all ties back to the idea of university and it’s worth from a financial standpoint. Many people like Jose go to college, but fail to keep up with it. Obviously, if you have the time and money go for it, but this was for the people that can relate to Jose’s situation.