This shoulde be no surprise. My own two children, after exhausting the parent’s ability to continue support sought and received student loans and grants for the last year or so of their education.

Both are paying back the loans but the difficulty is severe, doing this and also living with the costs of a big city where the jobs were.

Costs for education are unreal, and escalate constantly. It is easy to come to the conclusion that the Calif College system exists very nearly solely to pay large salaries and sweet retirements to administrators. The administration to student ratio is changing in favor of administration every year.

It is as if they forgot they need to have students in order to have a college.

My daughter, having paid her fees at the time of registration for her final semester, got an email from the University saying the Board of Regents had made a decision to raise tuition, and she needed to send another nearly 300 dollars before she was allowed to attend classes.

The students the California colleges are trying to attract are largely foreign, and on wealthy family scholarships or being suported by their governments.

How are California residents supposed to compete with that? Every student cannot find room in heavily endowed schools where scholarships are available

Barring doctors and lawyers and other high paid professionals, graduating with a pile of loans to pay along with supporting yourself can be a very meager existence. Considering the scarcity of jobs and the low wages for the ones that are out there, it can be impossible.

The much admired and worshipped Calif Higher Education system is going the same direction as the rest of the state.