Comment by Mz

9 years ago

I am 51. Age 17 was long ago and far away. I have no idea how it worked.

Yeah, my experience is now 20 years old, but it looks like (to your sibling comments' point) the NMS amount has only gone up a little in that time—to $10k. Meanwhile, tuition+fees (at least at my alma mater) has gone up by over 75% during that time.