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It’s true that jobs with flexible work hours can be preferential for college students.
I highly recommend putting some thought into what your work options are before you hit college. That might even help give you a leg up over all the minimum wage workers.
I think my kid should be able to pay for tuition with her summer internship and part time job. She may have to borrow for cost of living or she could live at home. That’s if I refuse to pay. Doable but not impossible.
One of my colleagues went to University of Texas at Austin during early 80s.
He said they had a strike because the university increased tuition per hour by 50% or more.
What was interesting was the increase was in single digit dollars. I see that in 1980 one could pay $226 for 15 credit hours. It is now about 4600 or more.
The chart below stops in 2002. It has almost doubled since.
Long time ago, Texas had some prepaid tuition plan (likely called Texas Tomorrow Plan in the beginning years but the name of the plan was changed later.)
It was such a good deal for the parents. We purchased it in its first year, as far as I can remember. We thought DS would attend an in-state public at that time.
One of my colleagues went to University of Texas at Austin during early 80s.
He said they had a strike because the university increased tuition per hour by 50% or more.>>
It went up fall semester of 1985, from $4 a credit hour to $12 a credit hour. We were married and it was my husband’s last semester. My most expensive semester was something like $225, which included two labs and all tuition and fees. My rent was $107 a month. I won a $500 scholarship senior year that covered all tuition, fees, books and I got a small refund in the spring.