Why Upperclassmen Lose Financial Aid
Recently, the New York Times released an article discussing how upperclassmen at various colligate universities find themselves with less financial support than when they entered as freshman. The articles explains how higher education can be deceptive or at least confusing regarding how a student is going to receive support and what the ultimate costs will be of attending school. The article does take into consideration that upperclassmen may lose scholarships from not meeting academic standards, or because of transferring to another school. However, the underlying idea is that these scholarships shouldn't be deceptive and many students need all the money they can get to make college affordable. For full article click below
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Thank you very much for sharing this article as it is extremely pertinent to us as current college students. Yes, it is very unfortunate that students lose scholarships for poor academic performance. The concept of grant displacement is absolute shocking to me. There must be some safeguards our government can put into place to regulate college financial aid practices more tightly.
ReplyDeleteThis article is definitely relevant to all of us considering that we are college students. Hopefully college can become more affordable in the future, and hopefully the government steps in to do something about it without hurting other aspects of the economy.
ReplyDeleteI think this article is very interesting and a lot of us can relate in some way. with how expensive college is these days its a shame that the longer someone stays at a university they could potentially pay more then when they originally attended. hopefully the government can come up with a better financial aid system that gets students more money in the future.
ReplyDeleteThis article is actually very disappointing to read because I am an upperclassman. I believe that college’s should be more clear when it comes to talking about financial aid. This is a growing concern for those who want to go into higher education with the price of college tuition rising. I do agree that all students need scholarships that aren’t deceptive thus leading college to become more affordable.
ReplyDeleteI think with the rising costs of education students especially now need to be able to have a clear picture of financial aid and scholarships. It is unfair to make these deceptive. When we are trying to make a decision about where to attend school money plays a large role in the decision process and when we are blindsided and actually receive less financial aid then expected it really problematic.
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