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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Complain about being a donut hole family? When there are thousands of colleges that could work between in state options and merit aid at lower tier privates and other oos public’s?l is it bc ivies and top 25 are not options?[/quote]

Its because their kids don't get judged on their ability but on their parental assets and can't attend schools they are eligible for or want to attend. Unless parents are willing to sacrifice their hard earned savings and risk retirement , kids often can't afford anything but community college or some regional state campus with merit.[/quote]

A true donut hole family should be able to afford $20-30K/year with savings and cashflow.  That's well more than CC.  Plenty of choices if you just try rather than complaining "we can't afford anything"[/quote]

You still don't get it. Imagine a brilliant STEM student who already got into Stanford or MIT. But they end up going to a much lower ranked school[b] ONLY because their family is too "rich" for FA and too poor to pay full ride. There's something wrong with that picture[/b].[/quote]

THAT WAS ME!!

And I have heard privileged douches my whole life make assumptions about someone's incorrect assumptions about people's intelligence when they find out where they went to college.  My neighborhood is filled with these legacy Ivy types that thumb their noses at the state school kids.

I worked full=time every summer and had a part-time job all through high school and undergrad.  My full financial needs=based friends didn't' have to work.[/quote]

It was me too. And my problem with the so-called donut hole family is that you are all upholding the same myth that the best job applicants come from the best schools. That cultural assumption needs to change. [/quote]

How heavily does your employer recruit at Salisbury State and Frostburg State vs. higher ranked schools? [/quote]

They don’t hire new grads but obviously they hired me, from Ho Hum State. [/quote]

Where did u go? 3rd tier state school?[/quote]

A Big 10. [/quote]

So even your job doesn’t hire 3rd tier.[/quote]

I don’t know I don’t work in HR. Do you? [/quote]

Yes. I’ve worked in HR. [/quote]

Then why don’t you go become an evangelist for the economic reality that great students go to affordable schools, even if they aren’t ranked well? Go write an op-ed. [/quote]

And there’s that ho hum education you have showing it’s weaker side.[/quote]

Oh dear. You should probably use the correct form of “its” when you attempt to snark about someone else’s education.

(and no, Autocorrect doesn’t change correctly spelled words, so don’t bother)[/quote]

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