College-bound students run into financial wall

Source: L. A. Times Posted By: Carter D...5467 days ago

Krystal Rodriguez and her mother both cried with joy in April when she received her college acceptance letter from USC.

"I was shaking and I felt like throwing up, but in a good way," Krystal Rodriguez recalled.

But her parents said they were shocked during a subsequent campus visit to discover that neither the government nor the university would be offering substantial help with the $53,000 annual cost of attendance.

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