For many families who are dealing with sending a youngster off
to college for the first time, the time between April 15 and May
15 can be perplexing. Recently, Kaitlin Filippi, a 2010 graduate
of Burr & Burton Academy and currently a junior at Lesley
University in Cambridge, Mass, submitted the following column
for a class project.  The cost of my father's college education
at Pace University, from 1969 to 1973, was $6,080. He was a
commuter, so room and board is not included in that cost.  The
cost of my mother's college education at Boston College, from
1983 to 1987, was $45,000.  The cost of my college education at
Lesley University, from 2010 to 2014, will be $112,294.  My
total cost, though, is only so "low" because I receive a merit
scholarship, am graduating a semester early, and will be doing
my fall 2013 semester from home, online, to save on room and
board costs. Without all of that, the cost of my education would
have been roughly $190,600.  Clearly, the cost of a college
education has been rising