Persuasive Speech On College Tuition

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Many high school students work very hard to maintain their Grade Point Average, participate in extracurricular activities, and take various standardized tests to attend their dream college, but it all may be going waste. While visiting a college fair, I discovered that colleges, such as Texas Tech, Texas A&M, and UTD were very expensive. I believe that college tuition is too expensive to afford and should be reduced, as many poor and average-paid families are unable to attend college due to the unreasonable price.

The expensive cost for college may be difficult for families to afford and should be reduced to a smaller amount. At the University of Texas A&M, a public college located in College Station, Texas, the approximate cost for one year

As stated by Adam Davidson, a writer for The New Yorker, “To understand the feeling of crisis that many see in higher education right now, it’s useful to start with some figures from 40 years ago... Attending a four-year private college cost around $2,000 a year: affordable, with some scrimping, to even median earners. As for public university, it was a bargain at $510 a year” and “Tuition at a private university is now roughly three times as expensive as it was in 1974, costing an average of $31,000 a year; public tuition...has risen by nearly four times. This is a painful bill for all but the very richest. For the average American household that doesn’t receive a lot of financial aid, higher education is simply out of reach.” Compared to the tuition in modern day, the cost in the past was much cheaper and affordable to families. There is a stark contrast between the past and present day, as colleges need to increase their profit. The rich get richer, and the poor get poorer. As shown, there is a clear distinction between the affordable prices in the past and the unreasonable prices