Thread: Tell Congress to reject cuts to the Pell Grant program!

Originally Posted by TJTJ

I dont want this thread to get sidetracked but these are discussions we should be having. One of them is this....

"Dear Students:
I am pleased to announce that the Lumina Foundation has awarded ***** a $600,000 grant to implement an extensive Latino Student Success project aimed at increasing Latino college completion and the number of college graduates in America."

That was from the president of my school. Now I think that is just BULLSHIT! Hispanics make up 65% of the population in my area. They do not need anymore help. I could use some of that money! Its hard enough to go into a place of business who even speaks English, let alone find work because of it and I was born in this city. I find it incredibly disrespectful they wont learn our language. Ive watched it turn 3rd world-ish.

It shouldnt matter where youre from or the color of your skin. Weren't we taught to believe in EQUAL rights and shit? Grants like this only segregates us more. Also this notion that white people automatically have a boat load of money or already have it made is getting old. And if there were to be some kind of Anglo grant foundation all of a sudden youre a racist its a KKK thing or some shit like that.

Just saying.

On your college app you should have checked the mexican box instead of the white box.

Originally Posted by TJTJ

They do. But Im not a fan of "for profit" schools. They ripped me off hard core. Their credits are nontransferable and any respectable college or university will laugh if you tried. Also if you once were awarded financial aid and completely bombed failing all your classes because you bullshitted around they wont give you a second chance. They wont give money to failures.

I forgot to mention this before and just remembered this as I just got off the phone with a friend having funding issues and some credit transfer problems..

the GAO performed an undercover study of for profit colleges last year. they successfully enrolled under-cover students in 12 of 15 colleges using fraudulent ID's and HS transcripts.

by definition the GAO describes a "for-profit" college as an institution of higher learning that may be privately or publicly owned (publicly traded) whose net earnings can benefit and individual or shareholder.