There is a clause in future cheer that says that any country apart from the usa can get a bid at internationals but only an at large bid and uk can get ul to a partial paid bid. The uk folloews the same level rules as usasf just hope other countires will follow as I would love to be able to compete in other countries
I really don't think anybody honestly knows where all the money goes haha. But the prices vary drastically, some private schools can get to be over $50,000 a year, where if you go to a public state school it can be much much less (I paid around $5,000 a year for just tuition not including room/board at my undergrad, but now that I go to a private grad school I'm paying around $100,000 total for 3 years, yay for debt!) and then of course the 2-year community colleges are even less. My guess for where the money goes would be the facilities available (libraries, rec center, etc), sports, faculty/professors, and much more that I probably would rather not know. And then of course once you graduate you get a letter from the university every other month asking you to continue to donate money :banghead:
It'll cost a little over $14,000 for me next Fall. But that's with out of state tuition and I get in-state, but my school hasn't adjusted it yet. According to the breakdown it covers tuition, a technology fee, and a required campus fee. Now that I'm in business school (undergrad program) all my business classes have course fees that are around $500 each. When I was a freshman and lived on campus, I had to pay a separate amount for housing and then for a meal plan that were both between $1,000-$2,000? Something like that. Maybe more. It doesn't include books either which will probably cost about 1k next semester. Textbooks are probably the most annoying/frustrating cost for me. Most of my professors require the newest or some special edition that will be irrelevant by next semester so I can't sell it back.
Money was never a factor for me even though my family did not have much money growing up. I always just thought I would be able to pay it off once I graduate and get a job so I never really thought about it that way. I do hear about people saying that they would go if it were cheaper though, but most of the people that I know that didn't go to college (which really isn't that many at all to begin with, pretty much all of my friends growing up did go to college) already had a job lined up somewhere out of high school and just took advantage of that.
This is something that also varies greatly school to school. You usually take the SAT and/or ACT the summer before your senior year of high school and the schools will look at these test scores (some require one or the other or both) along with your grades (just from the four years of high school unless you took high school courses in junior high/middle school), extracurricular activities, essays, community service you've done, and basically anything else that would make you stand out from other applicants. But since there are soooo many universities some schools are extremely easy to get into requiring fairly low grades and test scores and other schools you need to have near perfect scores and grades to have any chance of getting in. Getting into a college in general is fairly easy here in my opinion if you are open to any school, some people just don't get into the school they want to go to.
We have the ACT and SAT, but our HS grades are important too. Entrance is based on a combination of things - test scores, awards, extra curriculars, GPA, courseload, etc. Most colleges have a minimum ACT score, but nearly everyone gets in somewhere. Community colleges are usually easier to get in to (and cheaper). Different schools have different requirements, so some are really hard to get in to and some are much easier. You can take the ACT or SAT multiple times to try to improve your score.
