Should We Pay For College Students Essay

I am an immigrant. With my little to nonexistent accent many are surprised to find out I was never born in the United States and yet this significant little fact has had the biggest impact in my life. You see neither I nor my sister are the first to attend college. Infact both our parents have college degrees from India. However, due to language barriers and different, or lack of, experiences in their respective fields, neither of my parents have a job where their college degrees help them. However, the question isn’t whether we should get college degrees or not. Instead the problem is the amount of money we pay, or will pay, for the pieces of paper that are supposed to provide us opportunities and make our American Dreams a reality. My parents did not come from rich families, and yet they and their numerous siblings managed to receive higher education without incurring student debt with the help of their parents. But the same cannot be said for me, my sister, or anyone trying to receive higher education today. No matter how much they want to pay for my college education, my parents simply cannot afford to pay college tuitions that are higher than their net annual income. Leaving me and other college students with only one option: get student …show more content…
The simple answer, a lot of student loans. Until states start to increase public school funding, student will either have to pay the tuitions out of pocket or get student loans and accumulate crippling debt that we may not be able to pay. “ Between 2000 and 2013, the average level of tuition and fees at a four-year public college rose by 87 percent (in 2014 dollars); during that same period, the median income for the middle fifth of American households advanced just 24 percent” (Schoen). This means that majority of students attending college will be forced to amass student debt and put of getting married, buying houses, and raising children decades after