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Garrett LaGrange
Mrs. Yeyna
English Literature 12th (1)
1 December 2016
Annotated Bibliography
Ma, Jennifer. Average Published Undergraduate Charges by Sector, 2016-17. Average
Published Undergraduate Charges by Sector, 2016-17 - Trends in Higher Education The College Board, The College Board, Oct. 2016.
<https://trends.collegeboard.org/college-pricing/figures-tables/average-publishedundergraduate-charges-sector-2016-17>
In this following article, Mrs. Ma goes on showing what the highest tuition is and what
the lowest cost is. After looking for the best resource, Mrs. Mas explanation gives me a chart of
all the different prices of tuition that students see for college. In her article, she explained to us
what our tuitions and fees can cost, room and board fees, or if we combine the two how much it
will cost. She breaks it all down to get the most of it. This resource was valuable to me because it
showed what my highest and lowest tuitions would be in college. It enhances my project by
giving us the percentages people will have to come up with and really breaks down all costs that
we will all have to come across. I feel like its sparks some life into students still, showing that we
have cheaper ways of going to college if we can life with someone else or not on campus. All of
the information that she gives us is usable. We really get the feel of how much it will generally
cost for us to go and what we can do to help it.
Obama, Barack. Making College Affordable. The White House, The United States
Government, 2009.

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<https://www.whitehouse.gov/issues/education/higher-education/making-collegeaffordable>
In this article, Obama goes into depth of the question of how we can make college
cheaper. After reading a couple different articles on this question, he wants everyone to have
better educations. Obama had said that they will support our necessary things to graduate from
college. Hoping that by 2020, we will have the highest proportion of college graduates. He
explains that, over three decades our tuition for college has more that tripled and we can't afford
it exactly. Hes increased Pell Grant awards, tax credits for families, reforming student loans for
student aid, and expanded income based replacement. Over his time, Obama has worked to make
it more affordable, attainable, and accessible for all Americans. This resource is very reliable
towards my topic. It enhanced how a highly powerful man wants Americans to have a great
educations. What makes it spark is how he has already made new loans for us and continues to
make it better. I believe the most usable part for my topic is his explanations of how the different
loan repayment systems that he created showing us how to make college cheaper a bit.
Smith, Myra. College Costs: FAQs. College Costs: FAQs, The College Board, 2011.
<https://bigfuture.collegeboard.org/pay-for-college/college-costs/college-costs-faqs>
In the article, Smith goes over the question of how colleges cost for each year and how
they vary. Mrs. Smith goes only explaining how the costs can vary for either doing a two year
program versus a four year program. She also explains how the financial aid can come in and
help but you have to say the mart amount youd need. She gave us examples of why we should
try to go to college, since people that did have overall better lives. Mrs. Smith talks in the little
video on how students can help themselves early on by doing all of the work and then later your
college expenses not including your living one. She wants us to talk to Finacial Aid to help get

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money to help with the expenses on living down. The article is very valuable to me. This article
enhanced my project by a professor lecturing and also giving us a chart explains what we need to
do. What sparks it is the lady really talking about how students need to pay attention to all extra
costs too. I found this information very valuable since it talked about tuition per year, not just
once.
Spar, Debora. Why College Costs So Much. Why College Costs So Much | Barnard College,
Barnard College, 17 Dec. 2012.
<https://barnard.edu/news/why-college-costs-so-much>
In this article, Spar goes into depth of the question of whether or not, why college costs
so much in todays world. After reading a few different articles on this issue, she really went into
depth on why costs are skyrocketing and showing us what it will take to take on this challenge.
Mrs. Spar went through the past of her father's cheaper expenses for college and then how her
parents saved money to send her to college since it was still around $10,000. She believed that
in our coming decades, the American education with face overlapping challenges with a lot of
financial pressure. She even said, We will be attacked as too expensive, too indulgent, too
elitist. This resource is pretty reliable towards my topic. It shows personal view of how the costs
have changed and how we deal with them in our century. What makes it spark is all the number
changes that occurred over the pass sixty years in expenses. I believe the most usable part for my
topic is the different prices that occurred only because it keeps rising higher, but we are just
getting the same education on our life choice.
Student Financial Aid and Scholarships. Financial Aid Basics | Student Financial Aid and
Scholarships, Student Financial Aid and Scholarships, Nov. 2016.
<http://financialaid.unt.edu/overview-financial-aid-process>

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In this article, the author went over how financial aid can help us pay for the costs of
college and we need to use it. The person showed us everything we had to do for the financial aid
and how it benefits us. They broke it down by every little detail of loans, grants, or scholarships.
This article really went over the depths of what a single financial aid process can do for us in
college tuition. It can drop our costs by half and all we need to do is fill out the form and
continue to search for some scholarships. They showed a chart of the breakdown on what
FAFSA is. This article is valuable since it can motivate people for FAFSA help. It may enhance
my topic by getting students to actually sign up for FAFSA and go to college for cheaper and
wont be as stressful. I think it may spark us by showing that there is still hope into going to
college at a cheaper tuition that what you can afford. Everything on this website is usable, by
getting a FAFSA account and ID and for how it may help lower your school cost.