Originally Posted by jillio

No, jasin, you did not say all colleges are expensive. I said all post secondary education is expensive in relpy to your post about Gally. You later replied in the thread that was not true.

The costs you have listed are indeed costs of post-secondary education, and are all costs that financial aid, through your FAFSA application, use to determine the amount of financial aid that you will be eligble for for any particular school. That is why you are required to provide information regarding your housing choices, etc. Likewise, every school has an estimated cost of attendance, and these costs are autopmatically calculated into the cost of attendance. That is why the amount of aid you are able to receive is dependent upon the school you plan to attend, among other things. If these costs were not part of the educational experience, they would not be figured into the cost of attendance. Likewise, if finanacial aid was not meant to cover these costs as well, you would be eligible for tuition amount only, and no one would ever receive an overage check to assist with the cost of these other expenses.

And the fact of the matter is, you cannot attend school without having a place to live, clothes to wear, and food to eat, not to mention books and supplies for your classes.

You need to check the school's estimated cost of attendance, and not just the tuition rates, to get a realistic idea of what it costs to attend college.