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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am totally fine with top private colleges only taking the poor and rich.  If Harvard can give that leg-up to poor kids then more power to them.

My own Asian-American UMC kid goes to UMD and gets merit $$. I am aware that UMD is affordable even without the merit aid, but free money and savings are always welcome.

All I would want to see is that the definition of "poor" be changed based on SES, marital status, COL.  Let there we some sensible affirmative action in place. In other words, I am fine with Harvard not taking the kid of the rich Nigerian doctor, but instead they take a Black kid from the Bronx.

Similarly, the White kid living in DMV  in a household making $150K needs aid because this is an expensive area.  No one has any objection to affirmative action, if it is based on race and SES.

Even as I [/quote]

Yeah, all we need is more complexity in the system for people to take advantage of. . .

. . . btw this is sarcasm.  I actually believe college should be free to those that can get it.  Make it more selective and only for the top 20%.  Everyone else can do an apprenticeship like the olden days.  All we are doing is “babying” young adults by paying loads for them to have debt forever for a “middle class” life.  Not worth it (to me).[/quote]

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