<p>@PhuntsoW: Maybe, perhaps. But I didn’t felt that way when she said those words. Those words were like daggers piercing my chest. It has been almost a week, but those words still ring in my ears. And they will continue to haunt me for the next four years I am at Stanford. I will attend Stanford, but I feel differently about Stanford now. It is just a business proposition now.</p>
<p>So do you expect people to start dropping necessities in life to pay for college? Stop eating? Stop paying mortgage bills? Stop paying taxes? Otherwise I don’t get your point. The only way to come up with extra money is to cut niceties. One cannot cut necessary expenses. </p>
<p>Yeah, if you are really poor … then Stanford is great. But for us in the middle, Stanford financial aid is terrible … almost insensitive, I would say. And then add insult to injury with a comment like “Stanford is not cheap, … it is not for everyone.”</p>