College Tuition Benefit Analysis

In this day and age, some of our smartest students can’t even go to a school that they deserve to go to. Katie Hutchins, a talented high school senior from Georgia wants to be a doctor. Her dream college is the University of California in Los Angeles. This school has everything for her, the pre-med program grants access to a great hospital, and famous doctors on teaching staff that would help her lead her to way to medical school. She got in. "I stayed up late at night, made As to get in. What was the point of working so hard when I can 't even go?" she said. She wasn 't awarded any grants and could simply not afford to take out $2000 in student loans, as her parents would pay the $58,000 in annual costs. Turning down UCLA, the place she worked for years to get in, was very hard for Katherine. "I did my part as a student, but my parents felt like they couldn 't do their part as parents. It was heartbreaking for them." (Jane 1). This isn 't the only story of a student who couldn 't go to …show more content…
In a Time article, Steven Goodman shows why and how college tuition should be regulated: There are many different reasons for the rise in tuition, including better student residences, the best and latest laboratories, security improvements, and “cuts in state subsidies and administrative growth”. “Ironically, the accessibility of student loans, while admirable at first glance, has contributed to tuition growth.” This shows that when students take out loans, they are figuratively adding more fuel to the fire of high tuition. The government needs to step in at this point. The government already gives billions of dollars to the research and development for colleges cutting out their need to have such a high tuition. Colleges can’t be self-policing as it has not worked. As Goodman says: “[The] government needs to tie its support of higher education costs to college