“Phillip Levine is breaking down a barrier: the well-founded fear among low-income and even middle-class families that an elite liberal arts college is out of the question.” Levine, a professor at Welleseley College, “designed a calculator to estimate how much an individual applicant will actually pay, after plugging in his or her family’s unique financial…
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How to Pay for College
Despite presidential campaign rhetoric, it is extremely unlikely that college tuition will be free in the U.S. any time soon (or even in distant future). Remember how much Americans HATE to pay taxes? Taxes are what support our public institutions of higher education. When students complain about minor tuition increases at Utah State (one of…