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In my day, when you got into college, for the most part, they would work with you to get you loans, scholarshis, work-study, whatever, to get you thru. Now, in our kinder, gentler, America, if the parents can't do it, well, tough shit to the kids.
The "Loan to Learn" ads, are very engaging - a young woman gets a leter addressed from a college and before she opens it, she and her parents get into a whole discussion of the possibilities of payment of expenses and tuition IF she gets in, and the parents are clearly concerned and upset...the student has identified this as her first choice and she opens the letter with the parents watching furtively and afraid.
You never know if she gets in, the screen fades into white as she unfolds the paper, and the commercial gives the details of the company.
Two conclusions:
1. Parents can no longer rely to a great extent upon the 'system' within higher education to educate their children in the manner in which they would wish the child to be educated.
2. David Chase derived his Sopranos ending from the commercial. We'll never know if she gets in or what happens if she doesn't. And if she were to get in, then what?
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