This article highlights the differences ASAP has made in community colleges by investing more money in their students. By investing more money in students, they have less financial burdens to worry about which hinder most students. Asap gives students access to counseling which the average Asap student receives 38 times a year, a money waiver for textbooks, and free metro cards. Under Asap the graduation rate within three years went from twenty-two percent to forty percent.
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Many would argue that giving every student this much luxury would lead to a higher number of people going to college, and especially prevalent for a community college where tuition can be as low as 2,400 for example BMCC. In colleges with tuition’s as low as these the government will have to pay for the actual rest of the cost of each students education which was a huge scare during the recession.