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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The underlying theme isn't that my EFC is $jdafjeiioo and I am pissed that I don't get aid. The underlying theme is that that EFC is totally unrealistic. $500,000??? EFC???? Per year for college??? WTF. Underlying that high dollar amount is the fact that they (and I) know that we will get 0 aid dollars unless it is scholarship money and we are ready and willing to pay for college for our kids. What is infuriating is the fact that I am subsidizing 1/2 of the other students. It just gets tiring funding everyone else at some point. I am tired of hearing "pay your fair share". I pay way more than my fair share and on top of that I pay your fair share and everyone else's. Super maddening especially in this environment of "everyone goes to college" and we don't want to look at your ACT/SAT or grades we just want to say we have "diversity" and we don't mind if we have to offer remedial math/science courses to get everyone through a degree. And the comments about family planning are totally off base - what are they supposed to do? Abort one of the twins so that they won't have 2 in college at the same time. The entitlement mentality gets old and irritating. I do not owe anyone anything and I am tired of being expected to fund other's poor use of finances. [/quote]

So, you’re mad because your hard-earned dollars will subsidize a URM who got admitted TO. You feel that you and your kids worked hard but others didn’t, yet your kid and the URM kid are attending the same school. Got it.

Here’s what you don’t get and a lot of wealthy people don’t want to hear. You didn’t get there on your own. Maybe you attended a public school or college that was subsidized by taxes. Maybe you eat at restaurants, drive on streets, enjoy safety (police, fire, and military), and live in a house that is staffed or built by people who get low wages and/or few benefits. Maybe you work in a fancy federal government job that pays you nicely and you’ll eventually receive a pension, all paid by tax dollars. Maybe you run a business on Amazon that sells worthless trinkets and poor people buy your crap. Maybe you run a McDonalds franchise and poor people buy your crap. Maybe you run a business that contracts to the government (tax dollars ). Maybe you’re a physician/surgeon who treats a lot of elderly who mostly use Medicare or Medicaid to pay you (tax dollars).

The point is, you do not live and succeed in a vacuum. Whether you admit it or not, you have benefited from public expenditures or the work of poor people. The taxes you pay and the full-price for college you pay is a form of giving back for the success the System/society has helped you attain.

Think and feel with gratitude. You’ll be much happier and maybe even change how you live your life. [/quote]

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