<p>I’m not sure that mine had anything to do with race (both my parents are of European decent). However, I was disqualified from any type of grant money because my parents’ incomes were too high. Ironically enough though, even with my parents have a “high” income, they haven’t been able to just hand me $30,000 grand every year because they have three other children to worry about. My parents put all four of us through 13 years of private K-8 and high school each. We are a middle class family because my parents have had to sacrifice a lot just to make tuition payments. The bad part is that this is not even considered by the government when you apply for aid. All they do is look at how much they make and use whatever formula they have to decide how much they can afford to give you each year.</p>