Posted by alexandra_k on January 13, 2022, at 20:44:07
I don't understand. That is to say, I don't follow the complaint. I don't understand the nature of the compliant.
Let's see...
There is FAFSA funding, I think you call it. Federal funding. To help people pay for College. And there are eligibility criterion on that... And then there is a way of having it written off if you agree to certain things... And there were (legitimate) complaints, I thought, of people being set up to believe there wouldn't be problems with them having it written off... If they agreed to choose to work for a few (specified number of) years in certain jobs in certain states or with certain (likely federal) employees or...
There was this thing about them not being able to get into the jobs they were told they could get into (so them not being able to make un-interrupted payments, or similar). Or maybe the problem was that the people who were employed to tell them about what they needed for eligibility were mis-informing them... So, anway, there were legitimate (in some cases) issues that some people were experiencing with the Federal funding for college thing...
But that's different from people going to private schools, I thought... I mean... I didn't think the people going to private colleges were eligible for FAFSA funding... Actually... Maybe they are...
Price fixing?
Hrmmm.... Let's see... In NZ.. The government sets the maximum increase the Universities are allowed to charge domestic (at least) students. I would imagine that the state and / or federal governments would similarly fix (as in limit the maximum) for public schools. I would think that private schools are subject to no restrictions. I don't see why they can't charge anything they like...
I thought... Maybe I'm wrong... There was something about 'needs blind' and 'needs aware'... For schools who offered places where they guaranteed that if they offered you a place then it would not be the case that your lack of funds would prohibit or prevent you from taking up the place...
HOw did that go... I'm not entirely sure...
I thought that early admissions was needs aware. Because with early admission applications you are guaranteeing that if you are offered a place you will go. Before you know how much they are going to charge you. So it's fair for you to assume they are going to charge you full price. So you are agreeding to pay up to about $80,000 (say) per year for 4 years... When you apply under early admission.
Else you are poor as a dog... IN which case I think they are allowed to be needs-aware on early admission offers... I mean... I was trusting them not to say 'we know how poor you are and we choose to offer you a place at $80,000 USD per year x 4 years'...
The funding thing... Well.. That's at the discretion of the school, I thought. How much they required you to pay per year. After receiving infromation about your financial position. They are private schools... They can do what they like..
I thought.
They can be Robin-Hood. Taking full fee paying studnets via early admissions and using the money obtained to pay for partial or even full scholarships for other kids. To try and get a good mix of kids to try and get and keep a good culture at the University. Make it be a place genuinely worth people wanting to go there etc.
Anyway...
I don't understand how private schools sort of agreeing or colluding or whatever amongst or between themselves on how much they are going to full fee charge their private school education is... Screwing people with FAFSA funding.
The entire thing doesn't make any sense to me.
The nature of the allegations, I mean to say.
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The only sense I can make...
It seems that fairly recently... Well... A whole bunch of people might have got it into their heads that they might be able to sue their way into law school or university. Something like that. Use it... Not quite like publications... But something like that...
So then...
You don't want to make it too easy...
I mean to say you need to be able to distinguish between the people who champion good causes for the right reasons and people who are vexatious or who simply don't have an eye or sight for good cases or claims vs... Because the capacity... Is really rather surprisingly lacking in many... I mean... Check out the quality of many publications.. Attesting to incompetence and incapacity more than anything else...
I can only see this recent development in litigation against Universities as...
A way of trying to re-coup some of the costs involved in the (genuniely) more difficult (though possibly genuinely ground-breaking) proceedings around race-discrimination in admissions.
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