Is the national merit scholarship ridiculous?

Question

They give you a tiny amount of money. Is this the government helping out kids who are supposedly the best of the brightest? Do they think that everybody is like their fellow politicians with parents who will foot the bill?

PS, it's tiny because nowadays, you need way more than $2500 to pay for a dorm room at your state college.

Answer 1

yea it is ridiculous. room and board is $10k/year itself, and it's ridiculous to expect parents to have the $25k/year for college, and that's for a public college.