Someone needs to look into the Sallie Mae scam. Why exactly is college so expensive? Easy, becuase the Gov't and the banks pass out money like... (OK I have to say it) drunken sailors. Why does tuition go up and up? Because it can. Taxpayers are getting ripped off by the colleges and the banks. For what? So kids can go to school, waste time and get out with worthless degrees in "feel-good" pseudo-science and HUGE student loans. These kids don't stand a chance. And wait until they see what gets taken out of their meager paychecks to keep social security and medicare alive when the bulk of baby boomers start collecting. Do you think they'll remember that Bush tried to do something and empty heads like themselves generally opposed everything he tried? No way. I wouldn't want to be a college student these days. A hard rain's gonna fall on them.
They couldn't give me enough money or offer me more money in loans than they did. I turned extra loan money down, thank god.
Shouldn't the amount of money given out, in some way, correlate with the amount of money someone with that major is likely to earn?
I could have easily walked out of there with a pretty worthless peice of paper and 50k in student loans.