California Tuition Admissions, Application and Fees

AssociatedPress asked:

College tuition is expected to increase for the upcoming academic year and loans are becoming increasingly harder to come by. The declining economy has college-bound students and parents struggling.

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Quin810x asked:

Are the state colleges in California free to attend for residents? Also, how long must one live in California to be considered a resident for this purpose?
Any one have a link to a form that I can fill out for a community college to have the tuition waved. I plan to move to California and want to know how long I would have to live there before I am eligible for the tuition waiver.
Found the residency requirements here:
http://www.sjcc.edu/AdmissionsRecords/Residency.shtml. Thanks guys.

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K-Dog asked:

Many years ago, I know that California offered free tuition and other fees to residents who wanted to attend state colleges/universities. But what is the situation now?

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♥Sansa♥ asked:

I want to be a doctor. I’m thinking about attending UC Berkeley or UC Los Angeles. I want to know the general tuition for attending the UC’s. What is the tuition, the cost of materials, the dorm cost, the fees, etc. Please have a source as proof. Thanks!

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Home Credit, Life Time Learning tax Credit College Tuition Explanation:

College tuition can be deducted from taxes with the hop credit or with the lifetime learning credit, but both are subject to adjusted gross income limitations.

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This is a great video on Biden campaigning and fielding a college tuition question from a concerned high school senior.

Question from attendee about the Biden/Obama plan to assist with college tuition, and the answer. Biden promises he and Obama will lower threshold of Pelt Grants, $4000 College Credit, Promises if you perform public service he “will see to it your college gets paid.” He also mentions his two sons paid their way through college. One Biden son graduated with a little under $100,000 in school debt and the other son with a little over $100,000 in debt.

Before inflation wreaked havoc in national economies, going to school was the hard part. Now graduating had become the easy part, while paying off the loans have become the most difficult part of life. School loan consolidation and “OPM” options (other people’s money) have become popular means to pay off debt.

Reviewing one’s student loan documents may be one of the hardest things to do. Take the case of Virgil Hilliard, a graduate of University of Southern California. The slew of documents, no thicker than the regular bunch of Yellow Pages in a telephone directory told him that he owed $70,000. Medical school was no walk in the park- and the loans he owed were no laughing matter either. Hilliard shares:

“The day of my exit interview with a financial aid counselor, it seemed I’d spent every week going through those papers and fretting over just how my life was going to change.”

Diplomas and Debts

According to the Education Resources Institute (Boston) and the Institute for Higher Education (Washington):

“Undergraduates today leave campus with an average $7,594 debt from public four-year campuses, $10,000 if they opt for private schools. That figure is increasing rapidly since tuition rises on average about 7% annually. Graduate students have it worse, particularly those who enrolled in professional programs.”

The figures continue their meteoric rise:

“On average, law students graduate owing over $40,000–a monthly bill close to $500, assuming a 10-year payback period and an 8% interest rate. Doctors and dentists, meanwhile, finish school owing an average $64,100 and $67,800, respectively, in debt. That makes for monthly payments of $777 and $822.”

Solution: School Loan Consolidation

With the staggering amount of debt of American graduates, it seems that school loan consolidation becomes a clear way out. There’s no way to sugarcoat the situation- any attempts to do so would just be pointless. The only way to tame the beast so to speak is to struggle against it head on. The struggle can be tiresome, but repaying all those debts is never impossible.

Computing for Comfortable Repayment

The general misconception is that the repayment of a hefty debt can be painful on one’s life. Given, you can’t bee too luxurious but it doesn’t mean you have to be a hermit and live on waffles for the next ten years.

Take what the USA Group, a loan consolidating company from Indianapolis, has to say about school loan consolidation and repayment:

“Most people can foot 8% of their annual salary in student loan payments comfortably. Translated into raw numbers, if you make $24,000 a year, $1,920 annually or $160 a month should be affordable with a minimum of financial pain.”

Get a good job too. Because of the volatility of the market, there are many disappointments but bright opportunities still exist. If you have to move to the next city or the next state to get that extra $10,000 in take home bonuses, do it. You’re doing it for your sake (or your family’s sake) and it’s not going to be a permanent arrangement. View it as a way to gain more financial freedom in the future.

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Mark H asked:

Hello. Does anyone know if College Tuition is tax-deductible in the Stae of California for state taxes, not Federal ones. Any help would be great. Thanks!

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Edward C asked:

Does anyone know if I can deduct college tuition in the state of California? Not for Federal taxes, but for acutal state taxes?