@ZionGate
College is expensive, for many reasons. There are ways to lower the cost.
#1 Go to public institutions, not private (save 1/3)
#2 Start with Community College for the first 2 years (save 2/3)
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Now state specific ways to save:
Here in CT
#3 Take ECE courses in High School, NOT AP
ECE-early college experience are UCONN courses taught in the high schools by qualified teachers. Students receive UCONN college credits for these and they are transferable to most colleges. My kids took ECE Statistics, English Comp, Biology, Chemistry and US History. When they graduated High School they had 15 college credits without having paid college tuition, just for books.
#4 Do 2 years in community college $200 per credit, THEN instead of transferring to UCONN or a State University @$28,000 per year. finish your degree at Charter Oak College. Charter Oak (a state college) charges $300 per credit, but if you have done your first 60 credits in community college, you can finish Junior and Senior years paying the same $200 rate. Total tuition for a Bachelor’s Degree would be only $24,000 and be covered by Pell and other grants.
Yes, one can go to an Ivy League school for 70K per year (10 time what I paid almost 50 years ago) or you can spend less than 10K