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Originally Posted by SilverTurtle
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Ofte being in the middle (especially that lower middle) class is more of a hinderance when it comes to aid in general, from scholarships to WIC to whatever. I would like to see more scholarships aimed at that demographic. They are the people most likely to take out enormous student loans that they probably can't afford to pay off and often alternative options (technical schools, getting an associate degree prior to a bachelors cheaper, etc.) aren't presented as options.
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I agree completely. My family is comfortably upper middle class, but I have cousins who are middle class and watching them jump through hoops to afford college was painful. They really didn't qualify for financial aid but at the same time could not really afford college either. Insane amounts of loans were taken out, and right now I'm watching one cousin have to take out an additional loan (and an absurdly high one at that) to go to med school, on top of the loan she had to use to go to college.
So once again I can see why an already financially strained white male could take a look at all the scholarships available and be very frustrated that he could not even qualify for any of them. While every white person in America gets some amount of white privilege, very few are entitled to all of it. Social class is a HUGE factor in who gets what privileges. Nobody is trying to help the white son of a hippie or a dock worker or a kindergarten teacher succeed either.
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