06-09-2008, 09:00 AM
[quote Black Landlord]Well, I'll certainly admit I waaay haven't been keeping up on this subject, but aren't there still need-based grants for undergraduates, and scholarships available?
[quote vision63]People are speaking as if everyone in this country has the means to pay for college. Some people are poor. Or is everyone in this country of adequate means? Or is everyone that lack the means just stupidly unable keep up with society, therefore, why should anyone sympathize with them? Wonder how much some people's kids would have power studied themselves to scholastic greatness if mom and dad had smoked crack cocaine? And if mom and day smoked crack cocaine, why should I an innocent child be ruled ineligible for any kind of support and sympathy? Particularly if I succeeded in school despite them? Since said college aspiring child is effectively destitute, they should now saddle themselves with loans? Nobody wants to share?
Indeed. But the pot is getting smaller and smaller while the tuitions and fees get larger and larger.
Stanford (of all places) has taken to covering the costs for many of it's students after being embarrassed by their tremendously large endowment. The even discovered kids living in their cars.
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cg...BV5LHM.DTL&tsp=1
Stanford drops tuition for some students
Steve Rubenstein, Chronicle Staff Writer
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
(02-19) 23:49 PST Palo Alto -- In a radical change to its financial aid program, Stanford University will announce today that it will no longer charge tuition to students whose families earn less than $100,000 a year.
In addition, the university will waive room and board fees for students whose families earn less than $60,000 a year.
University President John Hennessy will make the announcement today on campus, university Provost John Etchemendy confirmed late Tuesday.
The university is making the change in the wake of published reports last month that its endowment had grown almost 22 percent last year, to $17.1 billion. That sum had begun to attract attention from lawmakers who want wealthy institutions to do more to reduce tuition costs.
[quote vision63]People are speaking as if everyone in this country has the means to pay for college. Some people are poor. Or is everyone in this country of adequate means? Or is everyone that lack the means just stupidly unable keep up with society, therefore, why should anyone sympathize with them? Wonder how much some people's kids would have power studied themselves to scholastic greatness if mom and dad had smoked crack cocaine? And if mom and day smoked crack cocaine, why should I an innocent child be ruled ineligible for any kind of support and sympathy? Particularly if I succeeded in school despite them? Since said college aspiring child is effectively destitute, they should now saddle themselves with loans? Nobody wants to share?
Indeed. But the pot is getting smaller and smaller while the tuitions and fees get larger and larger.
Stanford (of all places) has taken to covering the costs for many of it's students after being embarrassed by their tremendously large endowment. The even discovered kids living in their cars.
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cg...BV5LHM.DTL&tsp=1
Stanford drops tuition for some students
Steve Rubenstein, Chronicle Staff Writer
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
(02-19) 23:49 PST Palo Alto -- In a radical change to its financial aid program, Stanford University will announce today that it will no longer charge tuition to students whose families earn less than $100,000 a year.
In addition, the university will waive room and board fees for students whose families earn less than $60,000 a year.
University President John Hennessy will make the announcement today on campus, university Provost John Etchemendy confirmed late Tuesday.
The university is making the change in the wake of published reports last month that its endowment had grown almost 22 percent last year, to $17.1 billion. That sum had begun to attract attention from lawmakers who want wealthy institutions to do more to reduce tuition costs.