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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That pretty much shows what I suspected - the lower SES you are, the less higher ed you are able to get.

That data is 10-20 years old, too, so I suspect it has only gotten worse as costs have risen.

Radford was going to cost us ~$25K/year for tuition, room and board. That is the cheapest 4 year public in VA (my daughter opted for a private school that costs more, of course :( )  4 years living at home at Mason costs $60K in JUST tuition. I'm sorry, but these costs are ridiculous.[/quote]

Yes, however the poor get excellent FA. It’s the donut hole families that get screwed. [/quote]

Only at the Top 25-30 schools who offer full FA.

Majority of schools do NOT.  So the kid from a low income family who can barely pay the bills might not come up with a way to pay the $10K bill for spring semester, so they stop attending and often don't come back.

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That is not true. Decades ago I went to a huge state school which was and is only ranked in the 50 to 100 range. I was an RA to cover my dorm fees. The lowest income freshmen would brag about not only going to college for free, they would brag about receiving large checks every semester via financial aid refunds. Even though they were literally being paid to go to college, most of them would just disappear after a semester or two. Flunked out, quit, unmotivated, whatever it was.[/quote]

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