If Brown phases out college scholarships for middle-class students, stressed parents wonder: ‘How are we going to make this work?’
Together, the Santa Rosa couple brings in $103,000 annually. That’s too much to qualify for the major financial aid programs but not enough to pay the $34,000 total annual cost of a UC education. The financial pressures may force their daughter Rose to attend community college, despite her 4.66 GPA as a senior at Maria Carrillo High School, her mother said. “I wake up in the middle of the night thinking about this stuff,” Cohen-Sandler said. “I’m constantly calculating, how are we going to make this work?”
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by Teresa Watanabe and Rosanna Xia, The Los Angeles Times.