[grumple]

Pell grants are tiny though.

Really, the current grant system doesn't work.

We should tell the universities they must provide needs-based grants on their own and prohibit using ability to pay during admissions - or they don't receive federal grants. This way they aren't incentivized to continue to bloat costs (as happens now), since now the school is responsible for the costs.

[nsvd]

The tuition for my university (state school) is about $7,000 per year which is coincidentally close to the maximum you can receive through the pell grant.

[grumple]

What university? In PA, Penn State's in state tuition and fees come to almost 20k and out of state is almost twice that: https://admissions.psu.edu/costs-aid/tuition/

[tekknik]

Well rarely do you see someone on a Pell grant moving states to go to school, cause now room and board and food come into play.

There’s at least one site showing (oddly enough) private schools with lower tuition than Penn State as well as some non-private [1], but you’re still over the max of a Pell grant

1: https://www.bestvalueschools.org/cheapest-colleges-in-pennsy...

[lolinder]

> Pell grants are tiny though.

No, tuition rates at some schools are absurd. Max Pell Grant is enough to cover tuition at the three universities closest to me.

[grumple]

Tuition rates are much higher near me and the other states I've lived in. PA and CA... and I went to a private university. Silly me.