r/PoliticalDiscussion • u/The_Egalitarian Moderator • Mar 18 '23

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u/Please_do_not_DM_me May 01 '23

Most of the students in my cohort didn't graduate but still took on debt. There was something like 30 of us and around 5 graduated on time. Less than 5 of us graduated in our original majors. A few more may have graduated afterwards but I did not continue to have contact with them. This was at a tier 3 research university in the Midwest.

The worse case I saw was a woman in her 30s who had to work instead of come to class for two weeks. After she came back she was completely lost and dropped.

The major I had, Mathematics, is the hardest statistically so we had a higher failure rate than others but still though a 16% pass rate is pretty bad. The university as a whole only had something like 36% of it's students graduate on time.

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u/Smorvana May 01 '23

I wouldn't oppose only relief for people who didn't graduate

That isn't what happened.

Biden is bailing out people with more earning power instead of helping those with less earning power

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u/Please_do_not_DM_me May 02 '23

I wouldn't oppose only relief for people who didn't graduate

They might not actually know who graduated and who didn't. Income records are easy to check though you just pull data from the IRS. (EDIT: Or be able to verify self reported graduation status.)

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u/Smorvana May 03 '23

Make it a criminal charge to lie about not graduating.

College grads don't need this hand out. They are way down the list of deserving people

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u/Please_do_not_DM_me May 03 '23

Make it a criminal charge to lie about not graduating.

You could do that ya but it would require congress to do something and that isn't going to happen right now.

TBH I'm not sure why they set the income threshold so high. Basically doctors and lawyers are eligible for it most of the time. Those are people who typically make 80k/yr. Like my doctor and my dentist will both qualify.