[quote=Essbee]scaredyclassic wrote: “Need based aid is bullshit. Why is the family unit the source of money. In general 18 year Olds are adults. We don’t send families to prison when one member commits a crime. Why is a family’s assets and income pillaged for a degree for an adult who will get the benefits of that degree herself over many years

Why are families involved mandatorily at all???.

I honestly do not get it.

If I don’t want to pay it doesn’t matter my kid can’t get aid. But he’s not “rich”. None of my wealth, paltry as it is, Belongs to him at all…

Why involve families?”

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So, since the schools cost $60K per year now, and you prefer a no-aid system, this would mean that
only rich kids with parents who agree to pay would get to attend.

Is that really what you want?
Why not just make the kids understand that they will pay back parents later? (or pay it forward to the next generation, as you mentioned).

My particular school was really very generous. They even gave me a check with an extra $125 to buy a winter coat during freshman year. Many decades ago (maybe even 100 years ago), someone had created a “winter coat fund” for financially needy students from southern latitudes.[/quote]

Yes. Everyone pays. If you don’t have the cash you borrow it. As it is, poor people get a free ride and the non rich non poor get liquidated or superheated indebted kids????. Is that any more fair?

Here’s what’s fair. Pay the price. No federal loans.

Let the free market determine the price. Price will plummet without federal loans.

Maybe not harvard. Screw harvard. I’m talking about overall…

poor get it free.

rich pay small change to them.

everyone else pays inflated price due to massive federal. Intervention in the market in the name of “access.”

the utter crappies of that is why I opt out. Cal state or bust.

My mom says I’m a hypocrite cause I gave the prestigious sheepskin.