Make College Cheaper

For almost every college student, to pay for college is always a problem. Undoubtedly, tuition is the biggest part of the total charge and people can hardly find any way to save money from this. The best situation ever is, of course, a student has a full scholarship. But for most other students, they still have to pay college by themselves or their parents. Obviously, tuitions give college students a lot of burden. However, there is still another big part of expense for college.
Books in the US are extremely expensive. It is not surprising that a student spends five hundred bucks on books at a bookstore at the beginning of a semester. This expense can be trimmed a great deal in a way provided by Davis. Actually, many college students are doing this to save their college expense, like buying books online. But some students are still concerned about the time they would spend online to get a book, especially at the beginning of a semester when people are busy settling down in their dorms. Hopefully, in many colleges, people can start to choose courses early in the middle of the previous semester. In such a way, you don’t have to rush to do everything at the beginning of a new semester and can start your book plan at the previous mid-term. Also, selling your used books, either in an auction on campus or online can add some bucks to your pocket.
Cell phone cost is also part of college expense. To save money, students can choose suitable rate plan for themselves. You can estimate how much you would pay for each rate plan and choose the one that costs you least. In many colleges, they offer free phone call on campus and in dorms. So if your cell phone service charge you respectively on each call you make, you’d better use the dorm phone to save money.
If you carefully manage your college expense, you can save a lot of money. What have you done to cut your expense?