The decline in state support, the education race for higher positions, irregular financial aid or the collapse of the economy: there are general reasons so the cost of university tuition is getting out of hand. Imagine a senior whose heart has been set on her dream college for years. An elite, honorable college where everyone seems to want to go. She told her parents from an early age that she would one day become a member. During a college visit in the late fall of his senior year, he fell in love with the beautiful campus that seemed to stretch on for miles. The consultants and professors he met were polite and unquestionably convincing. Her favorite part of the visit was seeing how happy all the current students seemed with their college decisions. Overall, he believed he had found his home for the next four years. He returned home excited to tell his parents the good news. This is where the excitement soon ended. $35,000 a year was the outrageous price of his dream college. Her parents said they could never afford to send her. Tears began to stream down her face; his dreams were shattered. What would he do now? Where would she go? Although this story is fictional, similar situations like these are occurring more and more often. College tuition has reached an all-time high; with the economy in its current state, solutions are needed so that every young adult has an equal opportunity to go to college. No one disputes the importance of a college education in today's job market. Society has assumed a much higher demand for well-educated people. Since this is a growing trend, because it seems like universities are trying to get… half the papers… you need to meet them if you want to see results in the portfolio of every young adult looking for an equal opportunity to go in college. Works Cited “Barack Obama and Joe Biden: Making College Affordable for All.” Network. December 6, 2010.Berman, Talia. “Student Debt Crisis: Are There Solutions?” Telephone interception. August 23, 2006. Web. December 6, 2010. Block, Sandra. “Rising costs make the climb to higher education steeper.” USA TODAY. January 12, 2007. Web. December 6, 2010. Dickeson, Robert. “COLLISING: Rising college costs threaten America's future and requires shared solutions.” Lumina Foundation for Education. 2004. Network. December 6, 2010. Ehrenberg, Ronald. “Tuition Rising: Why College Costs So Much.” Cornell University. Network. 6 December 2010. "University costs on the rise". Network. December 6, 2010. "What is a 529?" Network. December 6, 2010. "How Much Does It Cost to Go to College." Network. December 6. 2010.