If I hear, "I got merit aid from [need only school]!" one more time...

curmudgeon
Mon, 17 May 2010 17:07:03 +0000

And my parents are very bright, well-educated people who had just always heard the myth that money will, somehow, be out there for “good kids.”

And this leads to the problem as I see it- the built -in “blame the kid” excuse. So when there is, predictably, not enough money … “Wha’ happened?” Well, kiddo. I guess you should have worked harder. Here’s this girl getting paid $50K to go to Yale School of Medicine. It’s right here on the interweb. And Bob said little Bobbette has a basketball scholarship to Dartmouth. And you know they wouldn’t say it if it ain’t true. ;)