> It might be relatively common for low income to get full rides or near full rides, but anyone in mid-income is getting saddled with tons of debt.
Because the government has determined that you or your parents make enough to pay for school on your own should you prioritize it financially. The low income people could not. For reference, my families household income was near $25k/yr and I got the first two years covered by a Pell. For $95k/yr you could certainly afford college.
Edit: nevermind. Saw the rest of your comments it's all bad faith BS about how the affordable education = government coercion. But also, somehow you went to school for $5 a year.
No. For 95k a year for a four-person household you certainly could not afford to send two children to universities that were $50-70k/year - which was the price of standard state universities at the time. Not without going into significant debt.
My parents scrimped and saved for decades and commuted hours every day to teach in higher-paying school districts while living in a low-cost-of-living areas and I was awarded all kinds of academic scholarships and I still had to go into debt and work all the way through college. And they were lucky enough to be working when the school districts would still give yearly raises, which has all dried up now.
The financial aid calculations that determine "ability to pay" are just bullshit to make you take out loans.
Ah no, I never said it was affordable, that’s putting words in my mouth and you’re now bowing out because you found out you weren’t poor. Education isn’t affordable but I still think people should pay their loans, especially if their parents made $95k/yr
I never said I was poor, that's putting words in my mouth.
I said I was mid-income (just below the median household income for our area at the time) and that it's the mid-income families that get saddled with tons of debt, and the idea that there's financial aid and scholarships to cover that gap in the middle income range is a fairy tail.
Because the government has determined that you or your parents make enough to pay for school on your own should you prioritize it financially. The low income people could not. For reference, my families household income was near $25k/yr and I got the first two years covered by a Pell. For $95k/yr you could certainly afford college.