parental income...

[Kimberly Boyd-Bowman]

I'm agreeing with Jeremy here.  My parents made enough money that FAFSA said that they could afford to pay for me to go to Cornell and Duke.  But my parents told me that they weren't going to pay a dime for my education because it would "build moral character" if I did it on my own (and yet they still claimed me as a dependent - no, I'm not bitter at all!).  I ended up going to the school that gave me the best deal, which was in New York.  Would I have gone to UNC if they had given me a tuition waiver?  Quite possibly.  I did eventually end up back in NC anyway due to being tied to the military, but I doubt I would have otherwise.  Parental income =/= kid's ability to afford a certain school.  I hope the grant stays, but I also hope that we move to a system more like Georgia has where *all* students with a certain level of academic achievement in high school get tuition waivers.

-Kimberly (aka KABB), c/o '96