There have been a number of threads that made me ask this question, so I thought I'd start a new thread about it. Who is it, exactly, who cannot attend a reasonable college without going into significant debt? By a reasonable college, I mean a four-year institution that will provide a reasonable range of educational opportunities for a motivated student.
It's not the persons who are high achievers and who are able to obtain merit money at many good schools. It's certainly not the rich. I'm not sure it's middle-income people, either, if they are willing to attend in-state schools. Are there some states where this isn't true? Perhaps it's poor kids who don't have the stats to get merit money, and who live in states where there isn't much need-based aid for in-state attendees?
Note that this isn't about being able to attend the college you'd prefer--it's whether you have a low-or-no debt option that's reasonable.
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