Your opinion of academic EOP programs?

[virtueixi]

I would rather have cuts in tuition than have these programs. It is a form of academic welfare. How is it equal opportunity if these people get a free ride, including textbooks and extra tutoring while other people have to work jobs or take out loans?

In my experience the EOP students are lazy and don't take school seriously at all. They also have lower admissions standards which means that they shouldn't even be allowed in the college as is. I guess since they don't pay a dime they just figure why not just fvck around. What pisses me off is that they complain about how they have things harder than non-eop at my school! It doesn't get much easier than free tuition, meal plan, textbooks and housing without having to work for it. Do they want us to pay them to attend school?:disgust: How about more attention to the "paying customers" in the budget so to speak?

 

[AccruedExpenditure]

EOP =?

 

[virtueixi]

Equal Opportunity Programs.
For low income people who are the 1st to attend college in their family, from what I understand.

 

[ColdFusion718]

Don't be bitter just because you were born into the middle class.

 

[akubi]

eh... giving financial aid to brilliant but needy students is fine in my view.

what really ticks me off is affirmative action, where some half-baked idiots have an advantage getting in due to their "minority" status.

 

[rh71]

My freshman year, my dorm in the "south campus" consisted of a lot of EOP students. They were cool people but a few were indeed lazy. Then over the next 3 years, I came to know a few more EOP students and you could not stereotype them anymore. The line faded after I got to know some more. I'm still really good friends with one of them after college and I actually didn't find out she was EOP until maybe 2 years of friendship. Point is, you can't judge these people based on a few bad apples. A lot of them have parents who recently immigrated and it's hardly these kids' fault that they (or their parents) lacked the income to send them there.

 

[virtueixi]

I am totally for helping needy students who are actually there to learn, but yeah its the bad apples that piss me off. They should have higher GPA standards so that people don't clown around and waste the money.

 

[CKent]

Give a man a fish, you just teach him how to take a fish.