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CSS schools can consider home equity and retirement accounts, the logic being that [b]if you paid into both aggressively while not saving for school, that is a choice you made and you shouldn't be rewarded[/b].

i agree that paying for college sucks, but financial aid is not for people with expensive houses and big retirement accounts.  save for college or choose a less expensive way to get a college degree, i.e. dual credit, CC and then transfer to a local or nearby public U.[/quote]

Sorry, but no. Whose high stats kid wants to go to CC??

[b]This is an inhumane suggestion, like putting a gifted kid into a special needs classroom. [/b]Who would do that?

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This is so offensive — to both community colleges and special needs kids.  I was a National Merit Scholar, and I took courses at a Community College because they were so much cheaper.  It was fine. I use the information I learned in those classes (computer programming, accounting, etc.) on a day to day basis more than anything I learned at the four year college I attended.  Certainly not “inhuman.”  If your kid is that much of a genius, they’re going to do well no matter where they go.  College is not *that* much of a transformative experience. For undergrad, the credential is the point. Nobody cares where you spent the first two years.

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Same. I’ve taken numerous community college classes as an adult and often find beginning foreign language options to be better than the classes I took in college.[/quote]

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