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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Listen to all the rich parents for whom getting in is the only hurdle! The vast majority of families have to wait and see what kind of money they will get. Most kids don't get to go to the best college they get into.[/quote]

Cry me a river.  Kids today don't want to get after-school jobs in high school and then complain that college term-time campus employment and loans are so unfair![/quote]

??? PP never said her kid didn’t want to work, and she’s probably well aware that most aid packages have work and loan components. Meanwhile her kid is waiting for the best offer to minimize the enormous amount of debt s/he’ll have to take on, and the work, in order to cover the $70,000/year tuition that you (and my family) paid ourselves while our kids had more free time for studying and play. You sound like a complete jerk.[/quote]

The "complete jerk" whose kid doesn't qualify for financial aid, like the college's alumni "opppresser class," pay for the financial aid.[/quote]

but back in the day when only full-fees paying kids were welcome at these schools, they functioned solely to protect the elite and the educations weren't so great.  It is with the opening of the doors to minorities (Jews, Italians etc so a very narrow definition of minority, but that's not the point here) and having applications be based on merit that the reputations of these schools grew.  Get rid of those of us who can't afford full fees? Sure, but there aren't enough people left over to fill the spots with first rate students.[/quote]

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