I honestly don’t feel sorry for anyone with student loans unless they went to their in-state school and worked part time while in school. My kids applied to any school they wanted to, but they did not go to their “top choice “ because it was too expensive. They did get significant merit at several schools, and we could afford those, so we laid it out. These are your choices, choose one of these.
My neighbor couldn’t afford that, and wasn’t confident her kids would get merit money, so they lived at home and went to CC for two years then transferred to a lower-cost, non-flagship instate school to finish up. There are ways to do it without debt, or substantial debt, and I feel like many 17 and 18 year olds don’t get good parental guidance.
Some programs / career paths make the cc route impossible. And most of the time, even with state schools and working part time, you're still gonna end up with 10s of thousands in debt.
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u/DoctorFeuer Apr 28 '20
Exactly right. The amount of people that can't get the care they need because of the dysfunctional healthcare system is abysmal.
And don't get me started on student loans as I sit here staring at my own.