I’m 50 and I’m sure that many of you are younger, but I can’t compare how my college was paid for to how today’s kids have to pay. The average college tuition has increased by leaps and bounds over the average income increase since then. My sister-in-law who graduated from a public college in 1991 worked summers to cover her tuition and was able to graduate without any loans. There’s no way our kids could make a dent in college by working summers.