<p>It seems as if all the good colleges are dominated by kids with money. Even publics like UT Austin (I'm from texas) are filled with well to do kids, with an excess of money. I mean really where do poor ppl go to college, bc college doesn't seem conducive to poverty. And it gets worse when the school is private.</p>
<p>Well, they are at the same universities but probably try not to act poor? Just a hunch.</p>
<p>Community college or straight into the workforce.</p>
<p>........or Iraq</p>
<p>I'd say CC for two years then a state school. Don't forget, some poor people get scholarships, work through school, get loans, etc. Military and straight into the work force also apply.</p>
<p>PS I love the title of this thread, smacks of ignorant rich people.</p>
<p>They become the Morlocks.</p>
<p>^ Lol, nice one!</p>
<p>Most kids I know whose families cannot pay for them to go to college, continue living at home, work and take a class or two on a part time basis.</p>
<p>^^^ yup... or they go to college on scholarships. Look for threads on Merit Aid (especially in Fin Aid and Parents' Forums). If you're talking about the way kids act, there's not much you can do. You just need to look a little harder for someone who's scraping by like a poor student, not being supported by parents.</p>
<p>define poor, define a kid with money. though i'd have to agree... at my state school the average family income is about 130k, not rich but upper middle class comfortable</p>
<p>My family income is +/- 140k They aren't paying for my college.. I am taking out loans... granted I did CC first.</p>
<p>if they're smart they go to schools on scholarships</p>
<p>People tend to go to the best school they can afford. For rich people, the options extend farther. For poor people the options are few. </p>
<p>So I'd say poor people go to the best schools they can afford -- this depends a lot on how many scholarships they've gotten, how much aid they qualify for, etc..</p>
<p>For example, if you're really brilliant but you're poor you could still go to HYP because it's free for those who make less than 60k/yr.</p>
<p>scholarships and loans... as said, CC for a few years to start out with is pretty common, trade schools, etc.</p>
<p>Well a lot of my friends and I have family icnomes of 50-70k. We are going to schools like UVA, USC, UNC, Cornell and Northwestern and paying about 5k (loans+ work study).</p>
<p>It's awesome how everyone on here is as close minded as they are. More elitists are all we need. By the way, I live in what would be considered a "poor" family. My mom supports my older brother, me, and a younger brother by herself working two jobs at about 80 hours a week. Although, my brother may be a lost cause, my mom works all this time just to make us a little bit more happy, to pay for my college application fees, my housing deposit for the fall, etc.. So where am I going, a poor kid looked down on by the likes of the people in this thread? I am going to a school that costs roughly 35,000 a year on a full ride merit scholarship. Poor are the same as rich. It's the animosity between the two that creates a barrier for poor people to transition from one to the other. Most of the rich kids I know are complete dumba**es and take everything they have for granted. So I guess my point is that this question is kind of demeaning and I'd appreciate it if next time instead of jumping to an automatic assumption of a person based on financial precedent, you should instead base your judgment on their moral fiber and willingness to succeed.</p>
<p>If poor people want to go to school, they work really hard in high school and hopefully get lucky on standardized tests to get merit, plus usually getting need-based to cover the rest. I am "poor" by most of yall's standards, I guess, although I don't live too rough (live in a decent apartment in the smallish town where my school is, don't go hungry, etc). To me, if your family income is 130,000 a year, that's rich. I am from a single parent household where my mom never went to college and worked in textile mills until I was in high school (then she went on disability for her fibromyalgia and other things). She also gets a small retirement check from her old job now because she is 55 and she worked there for 29 years. I go to a state school in my home state so it's not that expensive anyway, plus I have a scholarship that pays tuition and another that is $5000/year. I also get a full pell grant ($4500-ish/year), and I have a part-time job on-campus as well. My mom doesn't give me much because she can't afford to, although she tries to do as much as she can; her car is paid off so she does pay my car payment (although she does drive it sometimes), and we have a family cell plan so she pays that too. Other than those two things, I pay all my bills (incl. health and car insurance).
I feel like when people's parents pay for everything for them, they don't understand just how nice it is that their parents CAN do that for them. Not everyone can; they are very lucky.</p>
<p>^^^^^Pot calling the kettle black.</p>
<p>"It's the ANIMOSITY between the two that creates a barrier for poor people"</p>
<p>"Most of the rich kids I know are complete dumba**es" </p>
<p>Ah yes, and now we should all respect the hypocrit's opinion.</p>
<p>scholarships, loans, grants, etc...there should be no reason these days for someone to avoid going to college because they're "poor"</p>
<p>Well a lot of private and some public colleges make school free for the poor.</p>