{"id":25377,"date":"2024-10-13T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-13T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/application-fees-waived-at-colorado-colleges-this-week\/"},"modified":"2024-10-13T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-10-13T14:00:00","slug":"application-fees-waived-at-colorado-colleges-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/application-fees-waived-at-colorado-colleges-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Application fees waived at Colorado colleges this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=f8ab1e90-78a6-4235-9682-668c826dc954&#038;function=cover&#038;type=preview&#038;source=false&#038;width=2000\" width=\"1972\" height=\"967\" alt=\"It will be free to apply to the 32 public colleges and universities in Colorado Tuesday through Thursday, marking the seventh Free Application Days campaign to increase the college-going rate for Colorado students.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">It will be free to apply to the 32 public colleges and universities in Colorado Tuesday through Thursday, marking the seventh Free Application Days campaign to increase the college-going rate for Colorado students.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It will be free to apply to the 32 public colleges and universities in Colorado Tuesday through Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>It is the seventh Free Application Days campaign to increase the college-going rate for Colorado students. Last year, students turned in nearly 65,000 applications, with 44% coming from students of color and over one-third coming from first-generation college students.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to help Coloradans save money on college, and Free Application Days do exactly that,\u201d Gov. Jared Polis said in a statement. \u201cIn Colorado, we are focused on breaking down barriers to accessible, affordable education and connecting Coloradans to the skills necessary for a good-paying job and power Colorado\u2019s thriving economy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the 2023 Colorado Talent Pipeline report, 94.7% of Tier 1 top jobs and 64.7% of Tier 2 top jobs required some type of postsecondary education. The report defines Tier 1 jobs as having a salary of about $77,000. Tier 2 jobs have a salary of about $40,000.<\/p>\n<p>Application fees vary. The University of Colorado Boulder application costs $65 for domestic students and $70 for international students. Applications to Colorado College, however, are free year round, as at community colleges.<\/p>\n<p>Fee waiver information is available on the <a href=\"https:\/\/cdhe.colorado.gov\/2024-colorado-free-application-days-instructions\" id=\"link-679eef250874127cbd66b7b200e20234\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Colorado Department of Higher Education\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/coloradonewsline.com\/\" id=\"link-cf1f7f45f3564989a5d7aa8ebd6cfa7f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em id=\"emphasis-bb20a1f52c8e5f92fdf12f7f7ee2c1b5\">To read more stories from Colorado Newsline, visit www.coloradonewsline.com<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>will be free to apply to the 32 public colleges and universities in Colorado Tuesday through Thursday, marking the seventh Free Application Days campaign to increase the college-going rate for Colorado students.du1-i-syn It will be free to apply to the 32 public colleges and universities in Colorado Tuesday through Thursday. It is the seventh [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25378,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1804,120,155,28],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-25377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-college-recruiting","tag-colorado","tag-education","tag-headlines"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25377"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=25377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}