<p>Actually, the only direct costs are tuition & fees – students live off campus, but housing costs are relatively inexpensive in the area. (Around $300-$400/month for a room in a shared apartment or house, based on current Craigslist listings). So if he qualified for free tuition under the Promise plan, he could probably do o.k. with a Pell grant & stafford loans to cover living costs, plus possibly a part-time job. (I’d note from other posts that OP is an older student, age 22 – so I think he probably wouldn’t really want to live in a dorm anyway).</p>
<p>I was remembering numbers from the past - tuition has gone up this year, and I was thinking more in the line of numbers like on this list –> <a href=“http://www.elpasoinc.com/readArticle.aspx?issueid=300&xrec=5584[/url]”>http://www.elpasoinc.com/readArticle.aspx?issueid=300&xrec=5584</a> – but if he could qualify for the tuition waiver, then again, he’s only looking at housing costs. I mean – zero is zero no matter how high the tuition is for other students, and he’d only have to maintain a 2.0 GPA to keep that.</p>