joemccarthyblues:

“You’re lucky you qualified for so much financial aid. My parents made too much so I’m not gonna get jackshit”

Now here’s the odd moment when you tell a kid who remembers poverty pretty well that I’m lucky because I have less money and expects sympathy because his parents are prosperous. 

What kind of fucking bizarro world is this? If you’re making over 80 grand (The maximum that will allow you tuition and fees paid to a UC), you have no right to gripe and complain about the fact that you actually have to pay for college.

The financial aid system isn’t exactly tailored to real financial situations though, like, for just one example, for someone’s who’s parent’s career provides a medium to low salary and no pension or anything else of the sort, like, for instance, many catholic school teaching jobs, they have to save all the money they’ll ever need after retirement from their earnings. Thus, the person’s family could live extremely frugally in a typical lower class/ lower-middle class style while still having wealth in the bank which, though not realistically accessible to them, bars them from receiving appropriate amounts of financial aid. I only know of this issue from my personal life, but I’m sure there are countless other poorly designed financial aid qualifications.  Now of course the kid you’re talking about could be very much in the wrong, but I’d be wary of blanket statements about financial aid situations.

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