I remember coming into my senior year me and some friends of mine were so excited to finally be going to college and getting away from the city (going to a SUNY or out of state). When i began applying to these schools and seeing my 3.0 GPA and the fact that my mom or dad could not afford to help me at the time. I had to come to realise that at that point going away for college was an unrealistic fantasy of mine unless i wanted to be in some kind of debt when i left college. Many of my friends have gone on to some privates with even lower grades and i fear for them, one in particular who will remain anonymous went into a private university worth around 44,000 and he thought that the scholarship they gave him which was worth 22,000 would cover him all four years but it stated that he’d only be covered for four semesters. He still went to that school and i hope that when he finishes he doesn’t have to be in debt, as 44,000 is only the tuition but theres room and board, fees, meal plans, and other expenses unaccounted for. I hope that in the near future college is more affordable so that it could be more of a fair system in terms of academics