If you're college bound you'd best get ready to empty your wallet. If you're choosing an out of state school, it's just all that more expensive with the out-of-state fees and taxes they like to tack on. However, you can breathe a little easier if you live in Washington D.C. Because those fees will likely be waived, you lucky student, you.
The DC Tuition Assistance Grant Program provides grants to eligible DC residents to make paying for college a bit more manageable. Forget paying the full price, get a better deal with some awesome savings. The best part may be where the program will pay the cost difference between in-state and out-of-state tuition anywhere in the country as long as it's a public university. Any difference up to $10,000 will be paid if you want to go to a university in California to Maine.
Sounds great, but how do you snag these deals? You must live in DC for at least a year before the start of college, graduated from high school or earn a GED, and start college within three years of graduating, making progress in at least a half-time college or certificate program, and you can't already have a college degree. So what are you waiting for? Get to DC now and collect some cash for school!
