Seniors Begin to Prepare for College

 Feature

By Heaven Powell

Husky Herald Reporter

  It is a process that most high school seniors go through, applying for college. It takes a long time for these students, especially when applying to more than one University, like most of them do. High school seniors also have so many things to pay for throughout the duration of their year, including, but not limited to: cap and gown, senior year spring break, senior pictures, and many, many more.

  When you go to college, you pay tuition fee, fee for books, food meal plans, and traveling costs. It is a very expensive for the parents and student. Sometimes, an application fee is something that a family simply can't afford.

  I feel that if there were no application fees, more students would apply to schools. This would give each school a larger pool of students to accept, and more people would go to this school thus they would receive more students' tuition money.

  Tina Nandi ('15) says "I hate how much the applications cost, its okay the first time, but not after you apply to so many schools." Nandi applied to about five schools. All have a fairly large application fee. "I even didn't apply to a few that I wanted to because I didn't want to pay the fee if I'm not going to go there" she says.

  Those who applied to schools without an application fee were pleased they didn't have that hassle. Ryan Hunt ('15) says, "It seems like the smaller schools I applied to didn't even have a fee so I applied to so many without feeling like it was a waste of money, it was awesome." Many people had the same relief that Hunt did when applying.

  "I'm so glad I knew what school I wanted to go to for sure. I only had to apply to that one, having to pay for a bunch of applications for schools you might not even get into, or go to, would suck." Olivia Seely ('15) said regarding the topic.

  Application fees can be one of the most annoying things about the application itself. They can even discourage bright students from applying to a school. It sounds like big universities are gaining cash, but missing out on some great potential students.