Personal Narrative: My Friend Alejandra

My friend Alejandra was born in the U.S. and her mom is an immigrant from Mexico.
Alejandra 's mom is a single mom who worked hard for her daughter to be able to graduate and have a better future job. She had planned on going to college and majoring in business but was not sure what specifically. Her college tuition was $4,500.89 which wasn 't a big problem because she had her mom helping her pay and she worked at a job. Her typical college every day schedule was school, work, homework, and repeat. Her college offered her a monthly payment which she can pay in small amounts every month until she starts her registration for her next semester classes. Everything was going well, she made her monthly payments, but one day she found out her tuition …show more content…
Her second option was to transfer to a community college, which would be much cheaper for her and she could major in business. Another option is to see if her FAFSA offered her some loans which she could take out to be able to pay some of her tuition. Alejandra 's mom didn 't like taking out loans because she didn 't want to be in debt later on. Even though Alejandra didn 't like the option to drop out and work hard then transfer to a community college, she had to because it was impossible for her to pay so much money. She didn 't want to give up her schooling when she has an opportunity to graduate in business. so she started researching at which community college would be a better fit for her major. Alejandra had to wait half a year to be able to go back to school and keep …show more content…
if we decided to not have a high college tuition? Which that is a true point, but why make everything very expensive? Everything should be at a fair price even though some colleges are private. The University of Minnesota isn 't expensive compared to Augsburg and other schools. And yet, University of Minnesota has a big class size and many students go there, most are able to get their financial aid to cover their whole tuition. The difference of some colleges of it being expensive is because some are private and others are public but just because of this difference tuition shouldn 't be so high. Therefore, College tuition should be free. It would be a great opportunity for everyone who would like to continue with their education and graduate. Letting everyone who would like to achieve that opportunity they have which their parents might have not