College Acceptance: Check. Paying For It: A Big Question Mark.
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🗓️ 1 May 2023
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Still, NPR's Elissa Nadworny explains that the real cost of college for most students has actually been falling for the past few years, after decades of growth.
But college is still very expensive, and it can feel out of reach for some students. Two Washington, D.C. high school students explain how they're trying to make the math work.
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| 0:00.0 | It's happening across the country at public universities. |
| 0:10.9 | Just hours ago, the state board of regents approved tuition increases for the state's |
| 0:14.6 | top three universities. |
| 0:16.9 | Arizona, ASU and NAU will want private ones. |
| 0:20.9 | Georgetown University, hiking tuition up by nearly 5%. |
| 0:25.2 | Even community colleges. |
| 0:26.9 | Students at Central Oregon Community College will also need to prepare for higher cost. |
| 0:32.1 | Ten years ago, this would not have been news. |
| 0:34.3 | Big annual tuition hikes were the norm in higher ed. |
| 0:37.6 | But during the pandemic, as remote classes and campus COVID outbreaks took some of the |
| 0:43.3 | luster off the college experience, lots of schools froze tuition. |
| 0:47.6 | It was a welcome bit of good news for many college students and their families, but now |
| 0:53.0 | it's ending. |
| 0:55.7 | Through this, college tuition is ticking back up again at the same time. |
| 1:00.7 | Inflation is taking a bite out of family's budgets. |
| 1:03.7 | Ahead will hear from students who got coveted acceptance letters and are struggling to make |
| 1:08.8 | the financial math work. |
| 1:11.3 | I've definitely been surprised at the price tag on some of the colleges that I wanted |
| 1:16.3 | to go to. |
| 1:17.8 | And scholarships have become synonymous with college. |
| 1:25.7 | From NPR, I'm Mary Louise Kelly. |
| 1:28.2 | It's Monday, May 1st. |
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