Bennett Hypothesis: Financial Aid Increases Tuition

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More people started attending college when financial aid became available. So, you're saying that the solution is to give fewer people the chance to attend college?

That's probably the core of where you and I disagree.  You and I disagree on what it means to have a "chance to attend college."   You assume funding is wrapped in the chance, whereas I do not. Having a chance to attend is separate and apart from paying for the thing you have a chance to pursue.

Are you suggesting that elimination of aid would NOT result in people having to forgo college? That there's no correlation?

CHANCE means you're accepted into the school.  If you're not accepted into a school, then you don't have the chance to go there right now.

Aid, on the other hand, can possibly make it more affordable to go to a place.  That has nothing to do with the chance to go there.

Yes, if aid were to go away, then people actually going to school would take a nosedive.  But if they'd been accepted, then they had the chance to go, they just couldn't find the WAY to go there.

BTW, I don't think this would be the worst thing in the world!  I think there would be other ways for people to go to school.  I'm not sure what it would look like, but I'm willing to bet there would still be ways, and that the number of ways would grow in a pretty short amount of time (a few years).

Once you take the federal government out, and the market takes over, things WILL change, and probably for the better.