PART A: Which statement identifies the central idea of the text?

A. While colleges claim that their goal is educating students, they are usually more

focused on making a profit from the tuition students pay.

Students shouldn't consider attending colleges that they can't pay for out of

pocket, as many universities don't provide much financial aid.

When choosing a college to attend, it's important for students to further explore

the education they'll receive from the university and what it will cost them.

Students should attend nonprofit colleges over for-profit colleges, as nonprofit

colleges won't cause students to go into debt.

While colleges claim that their goal is educating, they are usually more focused on making a profit from the tuition students pay.

Explanation:

Generally, the first sentece of an essay (any type of it) is called the topic sentence where the main topic is written. Although it is located at the beginning of the text, it can be written in the first two or three sentences of it. The function of the topic sentence is summarize the main idea of the text. Then, this main idea is developed in the body of the text.

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