Financial Package from Skidmore

jelomom2003
Wed, 25 Apr 2007 12:53:41 +0000

I just don’t understand how this system was designed. While it is represented as being fair to all, it certainly didn’t have employment in sales in financial aid picture. With sales, your financial picture can fluctuate on a BIG curve from one year to the next. They can decide your EFC number on a good year only to be paying the higher amounts on a year that wasn’t financially good and throw your entire family’s financial picture in a state of chaos. There is no averaging over the course of several years, it is strictly year by year. Some years that “appear” good, you are actually digging yourself out from a not good year.

If you can’t work to the belief that there is a possiblity of improving your income in any given year, then that shoots the “American Dream” in the the heart. The system seems to penalize the already over taxed (in every sense of the word) middle class. Be very poor or be very rich, but don’t be average, because you are on the wrong side of every option. You just have to work harder than the rest to pay for EVERYTHING.

Just my ranting on injustice that doesn’t often get talked about.