Post-Secondary Expenses

With post secondary school coming closer and closer I am realizing a lot of things I never realized before. The other day a guidance counselor came into our first period class and handed out sheets outlining how/when we will be applying for university/college. It wasn't until that day that I really took in how expensive post-secondary school is. The fact that we have to pay just to apply completely slipped my mind and I think that the expenses for post-secondary are far to much. After we pay to apply, when we are accepted we also pay our tuition, pay for our textbooks etc and much more. Not to mention that for all the people who plan to live on campus, that's even more money drained out of our pockets. Personally I think that this is unfair because we shouldn't have to pay for post-secondary or at least we shouldn't have to pay this much. We go to post-secondary school to be able to get a job afterwards and help benefit society and make a living. I think the amount of money we pay is far to expensive. There are people in this world who have the intelligence, the determination, and the commitment to do well in post secondary but sadly they don't have the money which I think this is unfair needs to be changed. Just recently I heard that tuition fees for some universities in Europe have been terminated, which means many students over in that region are saving a lot of money. I think it should be the same here because honestly I don't really understand why we have to pay for post-secondary school. If we don't need to pay for elementary and high school, why should we have to pay for post-secondary? I have three siblings and two of them are already in post-secondary school, on top of them my parents will also need money to put my and my little sister through university or college. It's crazy just thinking how much money they are going to spend on us all and deep down I think they shouldn't have to be spending all this money anyways. In conclusion I think the system in unfair and should be changed so that it can make a lot of people's lives a little easier.