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The real people with problems are the very low income folks who are rolling the dice on generous and need blind aid (that can go away at any time) and can’t pay cash for Community College or Directional State so everything is borrowed.

They wish they “only” had $30,000 cash flow a year to spend on JMU.
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I was an excellent student in school, but came from a large lower middle income family. I went to a top school that gave very generous financial aid. My education was wonderful, but I'm not sure I'd go that same route today. I didn't have extra money to fly home for breaks and always had to scramble to find some place to go while the campus closed. I also couldn't afford anything extra like joining a sorority or studying abroad like most other people seemed to do. I always felt a little excluded. It's not always the gift upper middle class people think it is. I think I would have been better off going to the non-flagship state school where I got a scholarship.[/quote]

I got the maximum Pell Grant as an undergrad and my (not so strongly endowed) private college gave me extraordinarily generous aid that made it cheaper than the directional State U I also got into.

But every year for four years: if this money doesn’t come through it’s all over, time to cross the fingers.

And yes, lots of ‘extras’ were not on the table. I couldn’t take film or photography classes because I couldn’t afford the film/developing. [/quote]

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