I can attest to this I did community college in 08 -> 11. I was averaging about 1500 a semester. With books being low hundreds. A friend started community coll

I can attest to this I did community college in 08 -> 11. I was averaging about 1500 a semester. With books being low hundreds. A friend started community college Jan of last year. It was 5000 for the semester. In addition the books for the first semester were ~850, if I recall. Then for the culinary program a cook kit was required. You could only use the school licensed one, which I think was another 400. The worse thing was they had custom published core text books for the school. I.E. community college of Philadelphia Algebra 101. I checked with my old community college and they did the same. You could no longer save money by grabbing a used book.