College Tuition Essay: What´s College Equality?

College Equality Did you know that college tuition and fees rose over 400 percent between 1982 and 2007? Also did you know that in 2013 only 39.9 percent of 18 to 24 year olds attended college? Most students have to receive help from financial aid offices and scholarships to attend college. The colleges and universities are not what they used to be 20 years ago. They are way more expensive and the admission process is more competitive. Colleges currently over emphasize the need for high standardized test scores and deter students by competitive admission and excessive tuition. Colleges and schools put too much emphasis into standardized test scores. According to Scott D. Wurdinger, a professor of experiential educational and leadership

College is way too expensive for middle and lower class families. Many students wouldn't be able to attend college at all without easy access to loans. But that so many students have to borrow has much to do with the cost of attending (Phelps 1). I asked Kaelyn Beliveau if she thought college should be more affordable for everyone and she said yes. She feels that everyone should have the chance to go to college. She also said that it is hard because not everyone gets the financial aide and the scholarships to help him or her out. Students also end up in debt just to pay for degree that they want. My students, who sometimes graduate with double the average debt, aren't necessarily poor planners or irresponsible borrowers misinformed about the debt they are taking on to finance their college education. They just come from homes that couldn't afford to put money into a college savings account (Phelps 2). Students should not have to worry about the price of education. It's bad enough that a college education is so expensive. But the toll exacted by the extra burden of excessive student debt, especially on those already poor, threatens the common good (Phelps 4). Colleges believe that everyone should be able to pay their astronomical tuition when in reality that is unethical. If our educational system is ever to be just, we must find an alternative to the current way of paying for it, which leaves the already poor crippled with decades of debt (Phelps