Should College Students Get Paid?

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College is a very important part of life, that most students want to experience. Most students look forward to college because it sets them up to be successful in life. What a lot of students do not understand is how much it costs to pay for college. There are lots of ways that students can pay for college, most of them do so by either receiving scholarships, paying out of pocket, or by receiving student loans. To me, the best way to pay for college is to receive a scholarship. This is because a scholarship has a large amount of benefits. A scholarship is basically the government paying a student’s full tuition cost of school for doing well in High School, and them not have to pay it back. Also, it is a must that students on scholarship keep making their good grades while in college, because students can potentially lose their scholarship if their grades slip. The bad news about scholarships is that not every student can get one. The government can not afford to pay every student’s tuition, because for example if every student gets an academic scholarship it leaves a lot of room for slips up in school, then it is millions of dollars down the drain. With that being said, all students have to work extra hard in High School to be in the top …show more content…

No one likes the sound of paying for school out of pocket, it is very intimidating. If a student comes from a wealthy family, then it will be of their best interest to pay out of pocket. It would be best for rich students to pay out of pocket because they would not have to worry about anyone playing with their money, and they will not have to worry about Sallie Mae bothering them about paying off school loans for their whole life. For example if a student’s take out a loan every semester of their college career, if they do not pay it back, it will affect their credit. Most former students tend to continue paying off college debt for a good bit of their

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