I wish I was poor so I could afford to go to college.... What do you think?

Question

FAFSA beleives my parents can afford to pay $13000 for my college. But they do not take into account the amount of bills my parents owe money on. Maybe if my parents were poor and did not choose to get an education and work hard, I could go to college for free.

Answer 1

Yes, sadly, that is true. Or, if you have a child out of wedlock or abuse drugs then "turn you life around," you'll get money. There's no help for normal people who go by the rules!

If you are a grad student or over 26, FAFSA no longer considers your parents' income. That's the only break we get.

P.S. to all the smart-asses on here . . .4.0 GPA and athletic talent don't guarantee anything. Since when should education be based on physical talent anyway? And one could work all summer at twice minimum wage and STILL not come close to paying tuition and books, let alone room and board.

Answer 2

I think corporate America should step up here. There is a tax deduction available to reimburse corporations who pay for their employees to go to school. Employers should start more freely giving these scholarships, even if the people do not go to work for that company. Why should a student put themselves into debt and then be indentured to a company? Why not apprentice instead?

Say if a business takes in X amount of the GNP, and Y amount of people need to go to school, they should be responsible for financing the equivalent percentage relative to the ratio amounts.
X:Y=A:B
This would take the burden out of the banks which are more then happy to put you in debt and make a few bucks in the process.

It is possible within the current system for everyone to get an education.

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Doing something is better then sitting there complaining.

Read some of my other answers if your question my cognitive thinking abilities.

Answer 3

Be careful what you wish for. It's a huge misconception that poor people get to go to college for free.

Federal need-based grants and loans all have pretty low limits relative to today's educational costs. Say you're a freshman, dependent student. If you attend a school that doesn't offer it's own institutional scholarships and doesn't have a "campus-based aid" allocation (i.e Perkins, SEOG, Work-Study -- which not all schools have), the most you could get as a dependent freshman would be a $4,050 Pell Grant and a $2,625 Stafford Loan. So even if you were dirt-poor and your school cost tens of thousands of dollars a year, your parents could end up paying a lot more than $13000 a year.

Answer 4

Wrong. See that's the kind of things that people who have enough to survive take for granted.

Don't you think if it were that easy than everyone in my position or worse positions would go to college?
Even those that qualify for grants grants NEVER cover the entire cost. Student loans add up and sometimes add up to being more than what the college education would have been to begin with.

Your parents are not the only ones with bills. And they do not take our bills into consideration either.

Be happy that you have the things your parents have given you to get you where you are today. Most people do not have that. Look into other resources.

Also just because people are poorer than you does NOT mean that they do not know what hard work is. My day starts at six in the morning at the very latest and ends at approximately one in the morning...meaning that at the VERY most I get five hours of sleep a night. I work my job over 50 hours a week. And I am still struggling.

Answer 5

I know how that feels. My parents have to make a lot of sacrifices so I can go to college. Not to mention I have a little brother too who plans on going to college a year after I graduate. Most people who are moderately middle class get NO brakes when it comes to paying for college. It's so expensive these days, no including books, housing, and food. I had a 3.3 GPA in high school and that's not good enough for anything. Sure you can get into college, if you can afford it. Plus if you try working AND college you'd be wiped out and wouldn't do as well in school as you could be doing.

Answer 6

Poor little you. Grow up and act like an adult.
My son is in your shoes, and he's not wining. I can't afford to send him to school, either. I expect him to act like an adult and take responsibility for his own life.
If you want to go to an expensive college, apply for scholarships. If you want to save money, go to community college for your first two years, and after that, you could finish up at a university, and your loans wouldn't be so large.
Take a few years off and get a job. You could start out being a painter or carpenter's apprentice and make $15 an hour.
Life doesn't owe you a living.

Answer 7

Just because you are poor doesn't mean college is free. Far from it. FAFSA determined that my family can barely afford any of the college costs, but you know where most of the money comes from? LOANS. It's not free, I have to pay more later.

Answer 8

It is sick, but true. Until you are 24, FAFSA will base their decision on your parents income. That is how I got screwed out of an education. Now I have nothing, and still can't go to college. It's a no win situation.

Answer 9

I know what you are feeling. You have to be either really rich or really poor to afford college. I was in the same boat as you are. I got my FAFSA loans and private loans. I might be paying them back for awhile but at least I have a college educaiton.

Answer 10

I'm poor and I got my bachelor's in psychology. I didn't do drugs or have a baby out of wedlock. I think that last answer is terrible. Why don't you pay your way through college? That's what I did.
Plus, maybe, some people are 'handicapped' and people cannot help having a disability!