Anyone who tries to tell me it’s financially easy to get an education coming from a poor family can honestly get boned
This was a fucking joke 15 years ago ago.
How much money do your parents make?
My parents aren’t paying for college.
OK, so you and your parents only need to contribute 100% of the sticker price
wtf I make 7.35 an hour
Oh good, you have a job, fill the amount you’d made last year here.
wtf I can barely put gas in my car and the loan my parents gave me eats the rest
Cheaper? No. We’ll just introduce a bunch of bureaucratic nonsense and hoops for people to jump through so we have more ways to skim off the top.
They are literally means testing the price of tuition for elite private universities. Liberals love their means testing.
If i ever got offered a full ride scholarship to an “elite” university, I’d tell them to eat shit. Someone I went to Highschool with went to Harvard and they’re a massive shitlib. Like, I looked at her Facebook page and she got a picture taken with Nancy Polosi just a few months ago. Made me want to vomit.
I think there is a special level of cruelty involved with elite universities. They truly allow a student to pay nearly nothing if their parent aren’t well off (<70k annual income) but 1) the system isn’t built at all to support first generation college students 2) the system is built to accept students specifically from rich old money backgrounds.
Almost all students from the backgrounds that would qualify for ‘free college’ end up going to colleges where graduation rate is much lower and financial aid isn’t present.
It’s like patting yourself on the back and going wow 75% of our class comes from rich college prep academy’s who are often alumnus, what are the odds - they don’t even need aid!
At Harvard on top of legacy preferences there’s the Z-list.
Ninja edit: I just noticed that some editor had a sense of humor and added a quote that works like a punchline.
Harvard caters to the children of well-connected alumni and big donors through the “Z-list.” Z-listers are often guaranteed admittance while in high school but are obliged to take a year off between high school and Harvard, doing whatever they wish in the interim.
Former Harvard University president Lawrence Summers has stated, “Legacy admissions are integral to the kind of community that any private educational institution is.”
Same logic behind US hospitals setting exorbitant rates for everything
