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Attitudes and Influence on Payingfor College
How America Pays for College clearly shows that
American families with a child enrolled in college place
a high premium on a college education. From 2009-15,
an average of 97 percent agreed (either strongly or
somewhat) that college is an investment in the future, and
eight in 10 families (80%) believe that a college education is
part of the American Dream.
A majority of families reported college is expected in their
family (63% agree), but the level of agreement declined
over the past three years. This shift is almost wholly driven
by changes in student attitudes—potentially indicating
a growing base of students who reach for college,
notwithstanding a lack of expectation from their families.
Parent agreement that college is expected in the family has
been steady over the past three years (66% in 2013, 65% in
2014, and 65% in 2015) while student agreement dropped
from 72 percent in 2013, to 66 percent in 2014, to 60 percent
in 2015.
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