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> I don't know anyone who gets free money for college

Here you go http://studentaid.ed.gov/types/grants-scholarships

I didn't even think you were talking about grants. Are you saying grants are responsible for high tuition costs? Without grants, the gap would have to be made up in student loans. What good would that do? It would simply make students assume a higher debt burden to get the same education that society demands from them.

My whole original post is an attempt to refute what you just said.

Without grants, there wouldn't be a gap. College would cost less. Also, society "demanding" people to go to college is part of the problem.

Gonna jump in here -- what makes you so sure it's grants rather than the way college loans work?

I haven't done the numbers but I suspect there's like 10x as much tuition coming from loans as there is from grants -- wouldn't that make grants a tiny portion of the problem?

In my original post, I talk about more than grants. The person to whom I'm replying just said grants, so I'm just being direct.

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