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The scholarship process is also broken. With many of the "merit-based" scholarships, there is a bias favoring those coming from low income families (otherwise
by veyron 15y ago
The scholarship process is also broken. With many of the "merit-based" scholarships, there is a bias favoring those coming from low income families (otherwise why would they ask for parents' income information?)
- Apocryphon 15y agoBut kids from low income families are more likely to suffer from student loans.
- veyron 15y agoThis is the middle-class trap. In reality, kids from middle-class families are squeezed, because they are ineligible for most financial aid / scholarships and dont have enough money to go to college on their own.
- ryanisinallofus 15y agoI was part of that trap. My parents wouldn't or couldn't help me and they made too much for me to get financial financial aid.
- veyron 15y agoOut of curiosity: what are you doing now?
- ryanisinallofus 15y agoDesigning/dev at a popular restaurant guide and mobile app. School loans paid off by my wife and I working full time and only living off of my income.