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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You’re free to quit your job if being poor is so awesome. *Crickets*[/quote] I suspect a lot of families do somehow game the financial aid system this way. Like maybe one parent stops working. Getting 320k of aid bears a pre tax income of 80k or whatever [/quote] Try actually being a poor kid and getting into Harvard. I've worked with these kids. They are engaged and trying really hard. Most of them don't have the grades or SAT scores to get into Harvards. Those elite schools are the only ones offering full need-based aid. Go down a tier (the ones most kids could get into), and they might admit you, but they will saddle you with deb (will not let you pay your expected family contribution)t. If your mom is an immigrant with poor English skills working as a manicurist, and your dad washes dishes, there is no way on this earth that you could go to one of those second tier schools and pay (without taking out massive loans). Effectively, you're stuck with community college and state school as the only path (and one with many obstacles). The number of schools that actually do a full-ride scholarship for poor kids is vanishingly small, and ridiculously hard to obtain. [/quote] +1[/quote]
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