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Originally Posted by woj
so if "the number of people accepted into the college will not be increasing"... doesn't that mean that some people who were previously qualified, willing to pay, and able to afford to go there, will be unable to attend now (for lack of available spots)? How is that desirable in any way?
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As far as I understand the application and acceptance policy will not change. So they accept people as they normally would then they look at their grades and finances to see if they qualify. The more I read about it the more it looks like they aren't really giving that much away. A person will still have to pay for room and board if they live on campus and it gives them no transportation or living expenses. Annual tuition and fees runs around $8,500 per year. Pell Grant would pay $5,800 and there is a program called Oregon Promise that would pay an additional $2,200. So if they qualify for Pell Grant they likely would have gotten free tuition anyway. So it looks like the actual number of people this will help is pretty small, a person would have to qualify for Pell Grant, but not Oregon Promise in order to benefit from it.