Work full-time and attend night school. If courses are job related, your company may pick up the tab. Join ROTC for excellent financial support. Graduate from high school with honors and apply for merit scholarships. If you have special musical, artistic, or literary talents, be sure to send colleges samples of your best work when you apply.
Talented athletes can explore available athletic scholarships.
Check to see whether your high school offers courses that may carry college credit, under Advanced Placement or other programs. Colleges can contribute by lowering tuitions, foregoing their tax-exempt status or paying a fixed percentage from their endowment funds to social security. Finally, government can help. Major shifts in spending priorities would make it possible, without raising taxes. While phasing in the changes, lawmakers could establish tuition tax credits or tax deductions for college and trade school expenditures.