<p>I have to agree, alamemom. We would give *anything *to get **free **grants in that amount of money! We would be over the MOON! I just can’t figure out how someone can be angry for having to pay UNDER $10,000 a year for school like USC! Even LESS for many folks here, it seems. Shaking my head.</p>
<p>**alamemom said:</p>
<p>You know what? This thread and the others popping up like it have sent me over the edge. </p>
<p>Wowie, I am outraged at your sense of entitlement. You have been handed $40,000 ($160,000 over four years) in FREE money by USC and you are outraged? Is it the taxpayers who fund your Pell and Stafford subsidies that you are outraged at? The USC donors who have given their OWN MONEY so that you can go to USC you are outraged at? Seriously? You feel you shouldn’t have to pay anything to attend a school that costs $55,500 per year?</p>
<p>And evita, I am outraged that you would come on here and complain that you “only” get a full Pell of $5,500 of taxpayer money when your family has hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars in assets (protected by the simplified needs test) and is able to write a check to USC for over $100,000 per year. I am outraged that the Federal financial aid regulations allow you to get a Pell because I am a taxpayer and I am contributing to that Pell. </p>
<p>Posts like yours make even my bleeding heart start to clot.</p>
<p>I find myself hoping that your outrage leads you to choose to attend elsewhere. **</p>