A student at the University of Colorado, Boulder, is making headlines after deciding to pay for all $14,300 of his semester’s tuition in $1 bills.
“You’re looking at all this money and you’re thinking ‘Wow, this is for one semester of school,” the out-of-state student told a Colorado news station about toting the cash to the bursar’s office in a duffel bag. “It was quit a sight and they said that nobody had even payed in ones before…. I just hope that it kind of stirs some conversations and people talk about it.”
His mom says she hopes her son’s stunt will bring some attention to the rising cost of an education. “Tuition has gone up so much and there are a lot of kids who don’t have a family who can send them to school,” she explains. “There are a lot of children who have to pay for their own education, who have to take out loans.”
Student Pays Tuition In $1 Bills, Parents In Sacramento React [Fox8.com]
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Cry me a river. He chose to go there, so I don’t feel sorry for him at all. Nor do I feel sorry for myself and my giant pile of loans from the private university that I went to – that cost more! It’s a choice. There are other options if you don’t want to spend the money.
You are my hero.
I’d have done it in pennies.
Guy really sounds like an entitled douche. But, his parents raised him to be such…
“There are a lot of children who have to pay for their own education, who have to take out loans.”
But not you, because you’re rich enough to give your kid cash money.
And my high school tuition is the same price.
This is nothing, I’ve probably dollied more than $25k worth of coins to my local branch here. Every time they see me they cringe.
The clerks do have to count it – they aren’t a bank and their methods aren’t the same, so yes, it is more work for them. And yes, they’re doing this at the same time everyone else is paying their tuition, so it is a lot of work. And if I know higher ed employees like I do, they grumbled about it. However, it raises a discussion, so it has the desired effect, considering discussion and debate are a big part of the educational process. It’s a good discussion too. When I started college, my tuition and fees for 18 hours of courses amounted to around $650. Now that I’m working on a second degree, my tuition and fees for 7 hours (less than half the hours) costs more than double: around $1500. And no, it hasn’t been THAT many years since freshman year.
McCollege is a joke.
Federal aid has artificially inflated tuition. Stop Fed Aid and the price will go down
If I gave you $100.00 every time you had a aflat ire I would suspect you would find some nails to run over…