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Dude, Where's My Dorm Room?
August 11, 2008 2:31 PM
ABC News' Alice Gomstyn reports: Thought dorm-dwelling college kids would escape the housing crisis? Wrong. It looks as if they’ve got housing problems of their own.
At the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, college officials are blaming national economic trends -- rising commuting and utilities costs -- for the sharp increase in students' seeking to live in dorms on campus instead of in once- popular off-campus apartments, The Boston Globe reports. A Massachusetts official told the Globe that dormitories at the Bay State’s nine state colleges will be at 5 percent above capacity this fall.
More news came today of the faltering economy’s impact on today’s college students: There was a 16.3 percent increase in students filing for federal student aid --- for a total of 8.9 million -- in the first half of the year, according to this story in the San Francisco Chronicle.
“Students who haven’t needed assistance before are coming in. You had to expect that this was going to happen with all the news of companies laying off thousands of people,” Richard Toomey, the associate vice provost at Santa Clara University in California, told the Chronicle.
But getting student aid -- student loans in particular -- isn’t exactly easy these days: As we reported last month, many students have had to scramble to apply for new loans after their original lenders found themselves too strapped for cash to stay in the business.
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i diane nero lives at 1301 goddin st richmond va 23231 i have a utilies bill extremely high gas and water i am ft colge student at kaplan unversity bussiness adminstration i need some assistant please repond asasp thanks ms nero
Posted by: diane nero | Aug 12, 2008 8:49:21 AM
My daughter convinced me that sharing an apartment with friends would be cheaper than a dorm since she could cook her meals at home. Then she convinced me that sharing a house with friends would be cheaper because it was closer to campus. Each time ‘cheaper’ ended up costing me more money. She’s working in grad school, thank God.
Posted by: Oonogil | Aug 12, 2008 9:19:21 AM
Diane,
You’re giving out too much info on the internet. I hope none of it is correct and I hope you don’t have a double major in English.
Posted by: Oonogil | Aug 12, 2008 9:26:16 AM
My child attends UTC, and the financial aid he received last year is not available to him this year. He has to pay for his dorm room, meals and the remainding balance of his classes. He may have to come home because I can't pay the fees. Can Help!
Posted by: concerned mom | Sep 2, 2008 5:44:07 PM
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