Why financial aid can’t solve financial concerns for some students

Macalester College student Marissa Heim tells the Twin Cities Daily Planet how the college’s generous financial aid hasn’t kept her from worrying about the future — and her studies:

“The cost has affected my considerations of a major. I still don’t know what I want to major in, but my thought process has changed a lot from a couple of years ago to now. Now that I realize how expensive school is, I’m more concerned about having a major that will more or less guarantee me of a good job. … I’m worried I won’t be able to study what I WANT to study – more what I feel I NEED to …..”

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Alex Friedrich reports on higher education issues for MPR News. Among the stories he has covered: the fall of the Berlin Wall, aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, collapse of the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis, 2003 Moscow suicide bombing and 2004 presidential elections in the Republic of Georgia. He holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Georgia and a master’s in European political economy from the London School of Economics.