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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it's because it just  feels unfair to people that if they were richer or poorer, their kids might have more options. It isn't necessarily unfair, or maybe it is, but this is how people feel. I also think that many donut hole families have parents who attended top private universities at a time when they were more affordable and it is a shock that their kids can't do the same, even though they have been saving for years. We are not a donut hole family, so this is just my guess as to how people feel.[/quote]

Yes.  It's if we were just a little bit poorer we could have gone to pretty much any school with financial aid and not have the very huge loans required to go to those private, selective LAC or ivy type colleges.

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But you realize that narrative is a lie right?  That you have fallen for a lie.

The vast majority of schools in this country don't guarantee to meet full need.  Of the schools that do meet full need, most of them are going by a figure that requires loans, and those loans would be much harder for a lower income family to pay off than they would be for you.

I don't know any lower income kids who didn't work during college.  [/quote]

Low income kids working has shown that they miss out on internships/clubs. Now FA includes spending money do they don’t have to work.[/quote]

What schools do that?  I'm a high school teacher, so I talk to lots of college students coming to visit during break.  How many low income kids do you know who get FA and don't have PT jobs in college?  [/quote]

If they go T50, none. It’s part of their contract. They are given stipends for spending money, travel to and from home is covered, they are given living expenses for unpaid internships.[/quote]

I am baffled at the fact that you think that there are no students on financial aid at T50's who have part time jobs.  Work study is a huge part of how the federal goverment funds colleges and university, and you can be assured that at T50 state schools like UT Austin, UVA, UGA etc . . . kids are holding work study jobs.

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