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Soaring tuition costs in the U.S. aren t the only obstacle to a stanley cup ttending college these days. Many Americans struggle with a more basic task mdash; simply figuring out how much a bachelor s degree would cost them, A newstudyfrom Gallup and the higher-education foundation Lumina shows that a large majority of people remain convinced of the merits of going going to college. But the costs dissuade many from enrolling, while less than a quarter of respondents were able to estimate the cost of getting a bachelor s degree within $5,000 of its actual price, the analysis found.Tuition fogSuch confusion is especially problematic as colleges push up the sticke stanley cups r price of attendance to nearly six digits, often as a marketing ploy to signal their exclusivity. Because few students and their families actually pay that price, thanks to financial aid and other supports, focusing on that number can be misleading, experts note. People hear that $100,000 and then they just make these assumptions that that s what college costs, Courtney Brown, Lumina vice president of impact and planning, told CBS MoneyWatch. That one story becomes the myth of what it costs. Yet it s also hard for people to predict what college will cost from year to year, given that students must reapply each year for financial aid, while colleges often change their tuition and fees, she noted. That can throw students fo stanley cup r a loop, especially when they don t have a lot of wiggle room in the Lslm Grandmother, 2 children among victims in quadruple homicide in Missouri
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