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Though the cost of college these days is often frightfully expensive and overwhelming, students have found many different ways of dealing with its costly effects.
Senior Vitaliia Vasylenko utilizes a system to pay for her college tuition each year. A helpful factor in the cost is the fact that she received a scholarship that covered 80 percent of the tuition. In addition to this, she also holds two jobs on campus. Seventeen hours a week, she works as an office assistant for the Whitworth Human Resources Department. This job entails performing general office support duties, process employment applications, and maintaining the access database for applicant information. In addition, three hours a week she works in Sodexo serving food.
"It certainly does not hurt to have an additional source of income," Vasylenko said.
Her family is paying for the remaining percentage of tuition.
Returning students received the notice informing them that the tuition will be raised by 4.69 percent in the upcoming school year. Vasylenko said that according to statistics, Whitworth University is not the most acute in regards to annual fee inflations.
"Every year goods and services become more expensive following the inflation rate [...] so it is quite logical for Whitworth to increase the tuition fees under the current market conditions," Vasylenko said.
The positive thing about the scholarship that Vasylenko received is that it "increases proportionally to the fee increase." This means that even though the tuition increases yearly, she ends up paying the same price each year.
Vasylenko is from the Ukraine and chose to attend Whitworth. Even though going to school here in America is expensive, the college is recognized as respectable all over the world. After getting a degree from an American university, it is just a matter of how proactive you are in your job search, Vasylenko said.
"A lot of big companies open their doors for the graduates from good American universities," Vasylenko said. "It pays off quickly."
Vasylenko recommends that younger and newer students search for as many scholarships as possible.
"There are so many financial possibilities for students now, and it is a great investment for the future," she said.
Contact Rachel O'Kelley at rachel.okelley@whitworthian.com
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