The Old Scoring Method for college admissions involved high SAT scores in math and English. The New Scoring Method only looks at a student's credit rating.
Hmm, pretty close to maxed the SAT, got accepted by four universities, but Uncle Sam and the draft won, so I enlisted. The advantage was, that little as the GI Bill paid (barely paid rent) I had to work summers and part time while in college, but as tuition back then was rational, and folks actually paid taxes to support education, I had no debt on graduation. The taxes I paid btw after graduation, and getting a job, more than paid back the state for that benefit.
We need to be there again. Tuition doesn’t need to be “free”, but state schools should be a lot lower. BTW: pricing books was always scary, but when I saw what my son was paying two years ago, even for used ones, plus his tuition, pretty scary. But he still graduated debt free, in part to spending 13 years serving the nation and getting blown up on occasion for his efforts. (Veterans, the OTHER 1% who really pay to support this nation, and our freedoms.)
Yeah, that is the way it is nowadays. Problem is, that 780 credit rating will become 78 after the size of the student load your child will need to take on.
Had lower middle class parents—truck driver father and housewife mother back in the 1960s. No one in my family had ever been to college and none to this day have ever graduated except lucky me. Yet won a scholarship for four years of no tuition at that even more expensive (and prestigious) private university in SoCal now. Then with good grades given a government fellowship for grad school while most of my contemporaries were headed for Viet Nam instead. Paid back all this luck with 45 years of teaching same types as me at a local community college where I am happy to say many were able to get scholarships and not have to be as dependent on loans. Bottom line: it can be done and college is more important than ever in a world where technology is forcing students to be smart enough to re-invent themselves every 3 to 5 years as the job market changes and so many jobs are temp.
Frankfreak about 8 years ago
Bernie, Bernie.
Dtroutma about 8 years ago
Hmm, pretty close to maxed the SAT, got accepted by four universities, but Uncle Sam and the draft won, so I enlisted. The advantage was, that little as the GI Bill paid (barely paid rent) I had to work summers and part time while in college, but as tuition back then was rational, and folks actually paid taxes to support education, I had no debt on graduation. The taxes I paid btw after graduation, and getting a job, more than paid back the state for that benefit.
We need to be there again. Tuition doesn’t need to be “free”, but state schools should be a lot lower. BTW: pricing books was always scary, but when I saw what my son was paying two years ago, even for used ones, plus his tuition, pretty scary. But he still graduated debt free, in part to spending 13 years serving the nation and getting blown up on occasion for his efforts. (Veterans, the OTHER 1% who really pay to support this nation, and our freedoms.)
WGW101 about 8 years ago
@droutmaMy uncle paid $50 dollars a semester to go to UC Berkeley in the 1950s. Imagine. Even with inflation that is unbelievable today.
oneoldhat about 8 years ago
free college but only if you are in the top 10% of your id class / otherwise no college for you
William Bednar Premium Member about 8 years ago
Yeah, that is the way it is nowadays. Problem is, that 780 credit rating will become 78 after the size of the student load your child will need to take on.
tbally57 about 8 years ago
Had lower middle class parents—truck driver father and housewife mother back in the 1960s. No one in my family had ever been to college and none to this day have ever graduated except lucky me. Yet won a scholarship for four years of no tuition at that even more expensive (and prestigious) private university in SoCal now. Then with good grades given a government fellowship for grad school while most of my contemporaries were headed for Viet Nam instead. Paid back all this luck with 45 years of teaching same types as me at a local community college where I am happy to say many were able to get scholarships and not have to be as dependent on loans. Bottom line: it can be done and college is more important than ever in a world where technology is forcing students to be smart enough to re-invent themselves every 3 to 5 years as the job market changes and so many jobs are temp.
oneoldhat about 8 years ago
uncle joe the people who talk of free college refers to other nation but the leave out the part i mentioned