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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If people got need based scholarships or reduced cost loans for college, they had help.  Those programs are meant to help. [/quote]

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This is NOT the same as growing up MC or UMC.

I grew up poor and received a combo of Pell Grants, loans, and merit-based scholarships to attend an in-state university. I worked six days a week in HS and as an undergrad to pay for food, rent, and remaining tuition. My EFC was a big fat zero and I received exactly zero dollars from my family. As a young person I was cold, hungry, and housing insecure.

But if it makes you feel better to tell poor people that their Pell Grants were as good as having mommy and daddy pay for calc tutors, SAT prep, sleep-away camp, European vacations, undergraduate tuition, cars, down payments on homes, and grad school … then your willful ignorance about the real world is shameful. I’m sure you’re the first to complain that “UMC families are so so disadvantaged when it comes to college admissions.” I’m sure your spoiled children look down their noses at the scholarship kids as well.

And we wonder why Trump won the working class?[/quote]

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