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Although the graph is interesting people are treating it like it’s some nefarious plot. There are far more students in the 60-99% income range applying to college than below 60%. And for the top 1%, there’s not that many of them and they apply mainly to the legacy institution, so of course they have a higher rate.

Basic statistics people…[/quote]

I just looked it up and 15% of Harvards class is from the top 1%.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/college-mobility/harvard-university[/quote]

That also says that 52% of Harvard students are between 80 and 99th %ile and 4.5% are between 0 and 20th.  But somehow DCUM's take away is that the people in the 80th %ile are disadvantaged over the poor people.  [/quote]

Always amazes me at the DCUM people complaining that they make $175K and how terrible it is that they can't afford college, when there are plenty of people living on $65-75K.  If college is important to you, then you can find a way to save.  If you were making $100K 10 years ago and now make $175K, then you could have been saving that extra amount each year and not let your lifestyle increase.  Instead you played keeping up with the Joneses. [/quote]

When you save, you accumulate money that disqualifies you from receiving need-based financial aid.

When you spend, you have no assets and your kid can go to college for free.

So you and your unbearable sanctimony have it all precisely backwards.[/quote]

So take the approach of not saving and hope for "help" with college.  And I suppose help with retirement and other things in life as well.....

Or be responsible and recognize your privilege and attempt to save.[/quote]

Or we as citizens can say, we don't accept the premise. These are not the two choices. We are paying 400k PER YEAR for each prisoner held, surely we can do something for kids who want to establish a career or a trade. Maybe we could have a program where kids work for two years post-high school for low pay in a domestic program and receive a voucher for two years of college/modified GI Bill. Maybe we could have a federal student loan program with 2% interest rates. Double the Pell program. Tax endowments. Maybe we need to take physical and mental health care out from under the umbrella of colleges and move them to health centers dedicated to serving 18-34 year olds in every municipality. Maybe we could use more "ghost hospital care" like they have in Europe where a doctor or nurse comes to you. House calls are cheaper and can handle most things. Having infectious people crawl out of their sick bed and get to a hospital is bad for patients and the rest of the waiting room. (And demand a straight line tuition decrease that reflects the savings once).

The ocean of options is deep and we're not exploring them at all.

I dont see how pitting parents who are trying to figure out out to pay college bills that range from 200-400k is constructive. [/quote]

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