The real crime was tricking these kids to go to out of state schools for $60k a year that offer the exact same curriculum as their in state school going for $12k a year.
Especially for computer science. If you need 4 years and 60k a year to learn how to do a Left join in SQL or what OOP is then you are better off using that loan for an actual investment. You can just get 4 years of experience instead and be more marketable.
You had the D.C. Tuition Assistance Grant Program that you can apply towards any out of state school. Also most private school aid packages are very good, if you are poor you will probably get a full ride at a school like American or GW.
TAG is $10k/yr at the max and continually threatened by congressional defunding. The different between in-state and out-of-state at most public schools absolutely swamps this difference - for the public schools I got into, it was $40k difference in in-state vs out-state.
> Also most private school aid packages are very good, if you are poor you will probably get a full ride at a school like American or GW.
entirely orthogonal point - this equally applies to any poor student, doesn't matter that you live in DC. anyone who wants to go to a public school has access to this
People still live there and the lack of a public school still affects them. Now I’m kinda curious if DC residents get in-state tuition in Virginia or Maryland or Delaware?
We have a program that contributes $10k/yr towards the difference. We don't get in-state for any of the nearby states and $10k/yr generally is not enough to cover the different in modern state schools.
When I was in this position, it was basically only economical to go a private school for undergrad.
right, my only point was that not everywhere in the US has a good/affordable state school you can go to. when asked for an example, i gave the example of where i grew up