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The True Cost of an Education
I hear Pomp and Circumstance being played by the band; I see mortarboards being thrown in the air. I feel the excitement of my two college aged boys. Then reality smacks me dab in the face and I realize to make this happen it is going to cost about $150,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],000 per kid for a college education. This sum isn from the Ivy League Colleges and Universities.
We refuse to take out student loans have selected state universities and even enrolled in a community college for a year to avoid the scam (more on this to follow later) perpetrated upon on youth and their parents. Sure,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], we would like to give our kids the best of everything but the cost have just gotten out of control and too high. But parents and students are still biting off way more than they will ever be able to chew or hope to digest.
A college degree is a very valuable thing and of utmost importance. This is especially true today but at what cost,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]? We have become really good consumers when it comes to almost everything else but not so much when we think the purchase is a necessity for our kiddos. The result,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]? Students today are graduating with literally hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt with a degree that is not very marketable in a vile economy and a drudge job market. How did this happen?
We bought into the dream that a college degree was paramount but we didn factor in the marketing genius most universities have deployed the past 25 years. As much money on campuses goes into stadiums, student recreational facilities and gyms that entice enrollment than money invested into the faculty or curriculums. And when our children ask for something we will at best provide it for them or at least encourage them to obtain it without taking an unemotional, detached view or assessment of the alternatives. It is typical today for a university student to graduate with the equivalent amount of debt that could have easily purchased their first home!
Then the student cannot pay the debt and the net results are horrible credit ratings and even bankruptcies of the student and often their parents. It is a perfect storm. Or better stated a disaster. Facts support that many students cannot even make the first payment on their student loan debt post graduation. The interest rates on these loans are typically very low compared to other forms of consumer debt (eg. Credit cards) and are hyped and marketed,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], rarely with adequate disclosure and lack of guidance or counseling. Geez, these are teenagers after all that are signing up for this debilitating debt load.
And while the hype of higher lifetime earnings can be higher for a college degree employee, it often is not enough or comes soon enough to pay off the loans required to get the degree. Sounds sort of like a scam, no? The scam part is that the cost of college and tuition has way exceeded the rate of inflation by as much as 10% per year in some areas. And the default rate on student loans last year was 7% in the first year! This does not include private student loans or those that are behind on their payments imagining the debacle looming?
Collection calls and threatening letters make life miserable and can literally ruin and destroy ones future. Suicides have been attributed to debt overload,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]. Why are we allowing ourselves and our children to do this,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]? Don we love our children?
A single old neglected student loan of just $2,000 from 20 years ago can be as much as $30,000 today due to fees and interest. They do not just go away. Learn about Forbearance or deferment or forgiveness but seek the advice and guidance of a professional and/or a CPA as serious income tax implications can result in almost every decision when a loan default occurs. There are also government agencies that can assist with counseling and guidance. Trust me; it less scary to face this issue head on than to keep ignoring it.
And for those of you who not had to face this decision yet for your children, congrats! Do not take the route of loans over prudent affordable college choice. Tough love today is much less tough than a foreclosure or bankruptcy or worse, in the future. What hurts your kids hurts you much worse.
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Right on, dude! That's what my husband and I and our darling daughter did for her college and we are all glad. She went her first year to the local junior college, groaning all the way. We had to really hard-sell the student loan risks, because all her friends kept telling her that was her way out to a big 4-year school. We let her go off the second year provided she work and contribute to her costs and no loans. She stayed her soph year in a dorm, then wanted an apt.,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], got roomies, and worked more. Cut to chase: 4 years,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], on time, degree in hand and hat tossed skyward, one unpaid internshio and one paid internship where she WAS hired permanently, thus becoming one of the 2% of the 2010 grads who got jobs in their field. Best of all? She often thanks us from the bottom of her heart that she does not have one cent of loans to repay, and has said it might be the gift of her life, particularly when she listens to her many friends who are sucked underground by theirs.
I am so happy to hear your story. I have two sons in college now and one is now at a community college finishing his "basics" and the other is at a state university and both are on track and doing well (now). I bought into the private school mumbo jumbo for their first 12 years of education in Dallas. With a divorce in the midst of their schooling,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], I had the guilty Dad deal and felt it was important to keep them in their respective private schools and not disrupt their lifestyle. The past eleven years (since March 2000) has been a lost decade in the equity markets along with evaporating interest rates. Wasn't anywhere to hide or invest that made much money; real estate, commodities and even "professional" private mangers and hedge funds all went nowhere. My eldest insisted on going out of state with his friends and what a huge mistake! I was "smart" enough to prepay their tuition with the Texas Tomorrow fund (529 plan) that covers 100% of tuition and fees but only for in state schools. But I was totally ill prepared for the reality of what college cost (maintaining two more households, rent,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], food, emergencies…). And generally, kids today are not prepared for the real world of bills and long hours working. Meeting employers, learning skills and interacting with adults in the workplace is the most logical and ultimately financially rewarding path to a career. Thank you for commenting.
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