College is really expensive, and high school is cheap. In college you need to pay for the classes you take, while in high school you don’t have to pay a cent to go to school. College is up to $25, 000 a year, depending to what college to go to. Along with that another big thing is that not all cities have a college so students have to go to another city for college which makes it more expensive due to the transportation they take, especially if that student goes out of state for college. The fact they are an out of state student will increase the price, which will make it more expensive. Also, in high school the books you need for your classes they borrow them to you from the textbook room. In college you have to buy your own books, which are also somewhat expensive. There are some books that will cost you up to $200 dollars or sometimes even more, and the books are basically always required so you need to buy them. In high school you just fill out an application and you receive free transportation on the school bus, and also to receive free breakfast and lunch at school. So you don’t have to spend that much in high school for food and transportation compare to college. When you are in college you need to have your own kind of transportation. You either take the bus or get a car to drive over to school, this transportation take out a lot of money from …show more content…
In high school you do not get to choose your class schedule for example if you want to go to school in the morning, afternoon, or evening. Everyone has to go at the same time, which is at the morning. But in college you could choose your own class schedule, you set it up the way you want it in the morning, afternoon, or the evening. In the meaning of this you have more time to do other things as well, since you go a shorter time to school in college than in high school a week. In addition, in high school there is not a lot of class options there is only a few, compare to college there is a variety of class options you could choose from. The classes are also more advanced in college, than in high school, meaning that college is a bit more challenging. Class size is not the same at all anymore either. In college there are classes of 45 students or even more, up to 300 students for lecture hall classes. There is only like 30 maximum students in a class in high school. This is also a very big difference between these two levels.
In conclusion, some students who go to college, at first think that college will be the same as high school when it is not. High school and college have some similarities and differences. Some of their differences are actually huge differences. The main similarity is that you have to take it with responsibility, in order to be successful