How can we prevent universities from only offering need-based scholarships, which will ruin higher education?
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However, as many schools are increasingly providing scholarships ONLY on a need-based basis. This seems rather unfair since I don't want my babies going to college with a bunch of inner city ghetto kids.
This will obviously ruin the future of higher education. If kids can't go to college just because their parents are rich, how are we going to balance this with kids who are children of illegal immigrants, or single mothers, etc. Seems like this will be destined to be the future of America sadly.
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What you need to do is donate millions of dollars to a school that will agree to abolish need-based scholarships, and that will only allow students to attend whose parents can afford it.
But, sadly, even doing that only attacks the symptom of the real problem. What you really need to do is abolish the public school system entirely. Then no poor person will ever be educated enough to even think about higher education.
Haha. Ok, I actually thought that some of your other questions were a little funny.
Whoever you are, you have too much time on your hands.
But, I do have to applaud your question structure, and excellent use of proper grammar.
This has got to be one of the most disturbing things I've heard someone seriously say. The purpose of need based scholarships is to provide smart and ambitious students with the opportunity to pursue the education that their richer peers take for granted. Students who don't go to private school, who don't get private tutoring or extra classes, who don't live in nice neighborhoods face a LOT of adversity. Need-based scholarships look not only at a student's financial situation but the steps the students have taken to overcome that adversity.
Not having a scholarship will not hinder your children's ability to go to college, so I don't understand why you say "If kids can't go to college just because their parents are rich..." It just gives opportunity to those who otherwise would have none.
Granted, the reality does not always match the ideal. However that does not mean that only people with enough money should go to school. It becomes a self-perpetuating cycle because without a better education they will not get hired for better jobs. Without the money, they can not afford to send their kids to college, and so on.
This is what life was like centuries ago, and the reason we even have need-based scholarship is because we've advanced enough as a society to care about everyone in our society and not just ourselves. Given your example, I suppose I should say that ideally we would have advanced enough.
Edit: Oh man, I just read some of your other questions. Haha, I'm glad I was fooled, and you weren't actually serious. :( Even so, it is still rather disturbing that there are people who really think this way.
Part of the idea behind need based scholarships is to give smarter kids (that dont have the means to pay) an ability to goto university, and as a result ensure their future. A future above the minimum wage.
If a wealthier family has kids that are academically adept, they are able to help the kids out with financial support and allow them to achieve in life via university. A less well off family wouldnt (or would find it difficult) be able to provide the means to go to uni.
Why waste someones talent just because they couldnt afford the training they need? Some of the nicest, smartest, and greatest people came from VERY poor backgrounds
edit: damn it always turns out to be a joke AFTER I answer
You almost got me. This was my absolute first question to look at.I just signed up to yahoo today. Cute.
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