Zeld2.0

Smooth brought up a good point - if you were truly at a disadvantage, I don't see how money could not have been gotten.

And i remember not all too long ago when I myself was applying colleges - I didn't really need financial aid but applied anyways and was happy to cut a chunk of my expenses out.

Friends coming from disadvantaged backgrounds often complained they wouldn't get it or thought they had little chance - IMO they were defeating themselves.

To be honest a good chunk of money is always available - most just goes unclaimed.

And yes I firmly believe that going by race is the stupidest thing possible - people tend to forget that even a majority of an ethnicity being poor doesn't mean that they are *all* poor.

The majority of the people living around me are Asian and while many come from poor backgrounds, there are also many rich ones as well.

Makes little sense when the rich and the poor can get the same money when one doesn't need it as much as the other for say, college.

Anyways IMO aid based on economics is an investment - you put in money in the hope that years from now they become great productive citizens who in turn fulfill that investment.