TRENTON, N.J. —
Vanessa Frost is thankful she’s not a year younger.
“I would completely be unable to go to college,” she said.
Frost attends Mercer County Community College under a state-funded scholarship program that gives free community college tuition for students who finish in the top 20 percent of their high school class.
But Gov. Jon S. Corzine has proposed making incoming freshmen from families earning more than $100,000 ineligible for the NJ STARS scholarship program.
Frost wouldn’t be affected if that happens because she’s already enrolled, but said she wouldn’t have been able to afford college even with her family earning more than $100,000. So the Ewing freshman worries about those like her who will follow and may not be eligible.
