<p>Paying for college: Five students’ stories
(Lake Superior College is a two-year community college)</p>
<p>[Paying</a> for college: Five students’ stories | Duluth News Tribune | Duluth, Minnesota](<a href=“http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/event/article/id/115666/]Paying”>http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/event/article/id/115666/)</p>
<p>That was interesting. The best idea was the girl who was getting a two year RN which will enable her to get a good paying job and eventually go on to occupational therapy.</p>
<p>Thanks for sharing that with us. It gives a view of how others are doing it. Were the college tuition figures just tuition or COA? Are the kids commuting.</p>
<p>The problem we see most often on these boards (and in my house) is how to pay for the $50K+ schools. It really hit me hard when I realized that even with a $25K merit award, that it would cost S over $30K to go a particular school. Scraping up that kind of money, which we are doing (actually more since he did not end up going to that particular school) is very difficult.</p>
<p>Those are tuition figures.</p>
<p>Lake Superior College kids would be commuting, I think. The others are headed to cities far from their home towns and must be planning on dorms.</p>
<p>I mention once in a while that Southwest Minnesota State, Bemidji State, and (a little more expensive) the public liberal arts UM Morris are Minnesota colleges that offer very inexpensive in state tuition to out of state students.
Southwest MN State tuition is about $7000/year.</p>
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