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Well, im in the UC system which costs 24k a year I believe? Financial aid offices offered nothing to my family back when I was trying to see if they could toss me some money for education, due to my parents status and the amount they owned. So, if your considered upper middle class and above, you most likely wont get financial aid. However scholarships for merit are certainly available, as stated above, to get one of these worthwhile scholarships however a student has to excel in some field, whatever that may be.
I would have to say that college is a necessity, disagreeing with macman's above statement. The reason for this is that times are changing, and so is technology. Technology is getting more complicated, and to keep up with these complicated changes one has to learn them, most likely only available in college and grad school. Will mechanics be around in the future? There might be self servicing auto shops in the future, etc. If technology keeps changing like it has the past 50 years, I dont doubt that a higher education will be required.
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