Bennett Hypothesis: Financial Aid Increases Tuition

[cookderosa]

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?

I am saying that having a chance to go attend college is separate and apart from how someone pays for college.

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

No doubt, since access to college was so universal before aid came along.

There are 1200 open enrollment community colleges in this country that EVERYONE can attend. Walk in and sign up. Access is already in place.

If I walked into any community college in my state, I could register for 30 credits per year and I would get a $4000 Pell Refund for each and every year that I attended. I could even earn a second associate and stretch it out a few years. Each state will differ, but every state has open enrollment community college, and you don't even have to have graduated high school to start. We don't have an access problem.