Financial aid is given for cost of living, books, equipment, etc. Not just to pay tuition.
Additionally, tuition aid isn’t given directly to school: It goes to the student, who pays the school.
Additionally, tuition aid isn’t given directly to school: It goes to the student, who pays the school.
Maybe this would still allow some fraud, but much, much less profitable.
Same here. Creating some expensive and complex system that fights “fraud” that consists of people taking on lifetime debt is dumb. Make the services share the pain for bad underwriting and the problem goes away instantly.
It was always a huge relief to a student if they managed to get a scholarship in cash.
I had enough surplus to pay for a good APC UPS system as well as a 2018 Lenovo Thinkpad notebook. These were invaluable for my education, but they served me for years afterwards, personally as well as for employment.