How does GPA affect financial aid?
As the four-year college tuition continues to stretch toward the quarter-million-dollar mark, it’s no longer just low-income students who find themselves at a loss. Middle-class families are being priced out of higher education as costs for tuition and fees increase at record rates every year. Columbia University in New York charged more than $51,000 per year as of 2008 [source: Weiss]. That’s for the same four-year degree that cost $20,000 in 1990 [source: Weiss]. Two-hundred-thousand dollars is simply out of range for most students. Even the $40,000 charged by some state schools is a tough amoun
