The Incredible, Rage-Inducing Inside Story of America’s Student Debt Machine

We're at this point with our oldest. He just started college, but he's attending Collin College, which is a community college for the most part. He started with 3 classes and the out-of-county cost was $871. The traditional 5 classes for full-time would be about 1,200. In the meantime, he's working and saving money. We have $11k already saved for him, so hopefully when he's ready to start on the Bachelor's degree, there will be enough to cover without any loans. He doesn't want them, and neither do we.