Cutting Pell Grants and subsidized loans would lead to student riots?

[Medwell]

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@polarscribe

Medwell, the maximum Pell Grant is only $5,550. So if tuition is a little over $5,000… that means they’re maybe “profiting” by $300? And that sum would not even cover a year’s worth of books for most undergraduates.

Well, there are other grants too. Since I don’t receive any, the only other one I know by name is the “Florida Student Assistance Grant”. At least one of the kids of the four I described gets this one.</p>

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@polarscribe

Assuming they’re commuting, then they’re saving significant amounts of money over many students by avoiding room and board charges.

They aren’t. One lives in a dorm (but is moving), the other three live in off-campus apartments.</p>

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@romanigypsyeyes

medwell, where do you go to school? I would love to read their FA page and see if I can see the fantastic FA program that they’re involved in.

The home of the Gators. </p>

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@kelsmon

The Mustang and BMW driving folks are not the norm. They most likely have parents who have significant tax write offs that lower their AGI to a Pell eligible level.

Can you please teach me how to do this?</p>

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@kelsmom

the vast majority of students receiving Pell grants have family incomes low enough that you would NOT want to trade lives with them.

Well, I don’t know about that. If I already pay my own way through school, what’s the difference if my parents make less money? I get an extra $5.5k/year for doing nothing? Sounds like a pretty good deal to me.</p>