'It just boggles my mind' 4.0 GPA student at UT leaving school for the military due to housing cos [View all]
'It just boggles my mind' | 4.0 GPA student at UT leaving school for the military due to housing costs
Arabella Sarver grew up in East Tennessee, and so when she walked across the stage for her high school graduation, she dreamed of attending the University of Tennessee.
"It was the only place I applied to, got admitted. I was so ready for this," she said. "I never thought it would be this hard to get an education."
She said that after finishing her semester, she is leaving the school and enlisting in the U.S. Marine Corps. She said she wasn't picked in the university's raffle system for housing, and she couldn't afford the rent prices in Knoxville — if she could even find a place to live.
"First-generation, working class does not have thousands to fall back on," she said. "I have had many people reach out to me who want to go to UT and my number-one response to them has been, 'Don't go here.'"
Around ten years ago, UT received around 17,000 applications. That number climbed to around 49,000 applications this year. They called it their "most competitive pool" in UT history.
https://www.wbir.com/article/news/education/student-leaving-university-of-tennessee-due-to-housing-costs/51-dc5f1979-0b66-4101-9cf8-361db70f3a05
Read on. It gets worse. UT is going to have to be like Cal-Berkeley and take only the top, forcing the rest to go to state schools or community colleges and transfer in.
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