I am the first person in my family to attend university. Stanford gave me a full ride to study CS and it has made a world of difference in my ability to access opportunities.
I am an anecdote obviously. However, I want it to be known that at Stanford, people at the bottom of the economic ladder receive aid, but people in the middle still get squeezed.
Making tuition free for all would actually be a net positive. Sure. There are people at the top who would benefit, but for the most part, financial aid is financed by the estates of people in that elite socioeconomic class.
I don't really have a point here. This is just my experience of the system.
Yea but historically Stanford was tuition free for everyone. (Like the founders wished it to be.)
So that's why they have such an extensive student aid program, properly not the same anywhere else.
Edit: Actually more of a comment for the post before.
I am an anecdote obviously. However, I want it to be known that at Stanford, people at the bottom of the economic ladder receive aid, but people in the middle still get squeezed.
Making tuition free for all would actually be a net positive. Sure. There are people at the top who would benefit, but for the most part, financial aid is financed by the estates of people in that elite socioeconomic class.
I don't really have a point here. This is just my experience of the system.