Essay On Afford To Pay For College

Many people that I know cannot afford to pay for college out of pocket or their parents cannot afford to pay for their tuition. Most, if not all of them, have worked tirelessly to earn scholarships, apply for financial aid, or work extra shifts to pay back the loans that they had to take out in order to pay for college. It is no question that there needs to be a better way to pay for college since not every person can afford it or qualify for grants or scholarships.
As a current college student myself, I see the need for a better way to fund community college. Many of my peers, including myself, cannot afford to pay for college out of pocket. I, for one, qualified for the Pell Grant, but my mother (a single mother of four children) who wants to go back to school to become a chiropractor does not meet the requirements for the Pell Grant and can only receive loans that she will then have to pay back. I see everyday students having to leave class early to make it to their job on time, so they are able to pay off their tuition; I see students getting bad grades because, instead of being able to study, they were working all night to pay for their tuition. Many of my peers, including myself, worked endlessly to make …show more content…
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