Useless Ivanka, DeVos, Acosta support access for all students to STEM education. Not!

[CozyMystery]

Link to tweet

Grateful to be able to work with Sec. DeVos & Sec. Acosta to ensure access to high quality #STEM education for all students across the US. (I bolded the words)

From August 14, 2017

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What a bunch of bulllshit!!!!

My daughter applied to the cheapest public universities in PA (which are among the most expensive in the nation). Best financial aid award she got was full Pell Grant and approval for $6K in federal student loans. She still needs $16K MORE per year for her final 2 years in college.

Okay, goodie. We bit the bullet and applied for student loans. She has to have a cosigner. No one will do it. Family has no rich people, and no one who can take on the burden of making those loan payments if she defaults.

Before one cosigns a federal loan, prudent people think about if they can take on the risk. We don't know of anyone who can do that, and it has nothing to do with my daughter ... if the worst case scenario happens, cosigners must be able to repay those loans.

She was to be a transfer student from a community college. Now she's a college dropout. A heartbroken one who makes straight A's in math, science, and English.

ALL students don't have access to STEM educations.

I don't know what we are going to do about this. My girl is wicked smart. And she can't continue at community college because she's already taken ALL math classes and MOST science classes. At this point she has to move on, into her junior year at a university.

She can't be the only one. I researched online and there are many people who are required to have cosigners for their federal loans. Or state loans. Or bank loans. Yes, even students with a full-time work history and great credit.

And she can't find a full-time job. Fast food places have part-time jobs; so does Wal-Mart. That is not enough to save money for college. Especially when most part-time employers around here make workers be available to work during all hours the employer is open for business. Makes it hard to cobble together 2 or 3 part-time jobs. She is very attractive, outgoing, friendly, and smart. But stuck in a small town Republican rural outpost in PA without funds or even a car.

I am so frustrated! She has no bootstraps to pull up! And hearing about all this STEM student stuff infuriates me because it is not true.

[smirkymonkey]

1. This is just infuriating!

I am so sorry for brilliant students like your daughter who need financial help. They are our future and this country is failing them miserably.

[Not Ruth]

2. She should apply to U Penn (Ivy League)

Rich schools are need blind. If she gets in, she goes, their cutoff for financial aid is very high.

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. We just had to cosign a loan for our son. The deal we made is that he can move

back home if he needs to, but he is completely responsible for paying his loans back.

Wish college was part of the rest of public education!!!

I hope your daughter can find some way to finish her education!