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[quote=Anonymous]I came here to alert people to their elite perspective. For first-gen students with low-income families that may not have great credit to qualify for an apartment, 4 years of campus housing is critical. And you are forgetting the added expense of furnishing this apartment and paying the rent for 12 months even though you're back home or elsewhere doing an internship for the summer. My father had a civil service job that paid about $38K back in the late 1980s when I was in school. There's no way he would have qualified to rent an apartment for $1K/month in addition to covering the mortgage and our family expenses. And as others have pointed out, it's the parents who rent these off-campus apartments, not the students with no income or credit history.

"There’s another word for college kids who must have four years of housing: poor.

If you’re on scholarship and in a city with expensive housing, it can be very difficult or impossible to rent an apartment for the cost of attendance housing allowance covered by financial aid.

Must be nice in your bubble."[/quote]

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