Summary Of Why College Costs More Than You Think

Jon Marcus wrote an article called “The Reasons College Costs More Than You Think,” to prove to people that most students won’t get their Bachelor’s degree in their first four years in college. College costs more than we think because we don’t realize that there are so many expenses that students need to pay for in just one year. Everyone thinks they will get it was done by the four years but many don’t take enough classes for them to succeed that goal. The author says “The average added cost of just one extra year at a four-year public university is $63,718 in tuition, fees, books, and living expenses, plus lost wages each of those many students could have been earning had they finished on time, according to the advocacy group Complete College America.” That’s just one year of college! Imagine the cost of …show more content…
They become dependent at this moment in their life that they don’t realize what they are doing is wrong. They can’t slack off in that point in time. They don’t realize they have to keep working that hard even after they get to college. Yes, college is harder than high school but to reach your four-year goal, you have to keep on track. I think that Jon is on the same side as I am on this topic. He gives you a whole article on examples of why he’s saying what he’s saying. He talked to and got many statistics to prove it. He talked to a kid named Alex Nichols. He’s a student that thought he’d get his bachelor's in four years but later realized that wasn’t going to happen. He even found surveys to back up this information, the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA did a nationwide survey of these