Yabba Dabba Doo! Free College Ain't Always What It Seems!

Hot Dog! Free Tuition... What's the Catch?

Yabba dabba doo! Fred Flintstone here reporting live from Bedrock! I just heard the craziest thing – some fancy pants college in New York is giving away free tuition! NYU's Grossman School of Medicine no less! Sounds like a dream right? Like winning the Water Buffalo Lodge raffle! But here's the rub: turns out after they started handing out free rides fewer poor folks got in. What in the Tar Pits is going on here?

The Rich Get Richer (Even in College!)

Some smart aleck named Jamie Beaton from Crimson Education (sounds like a fancy dinosaur to me!) says it's 'cause free tuition makes things too competitive. All the rich kids with their tutors and fancy extracurriculars (like polo with dinosaurs maybe?) muscle out the regular Joes like yours truly. Makes a caveman want to yell 'Wilmaaaaa!'

Harvard Joins the Fray! Oh Boy!

Now even Harvard is getting in on this free tuition gig! If your family makes less than 200,000 clams a year you might get a free ride. Sounds great but this Beaton fella is saying it might just mean more upper middle class folks steal spots from the truly needy. It's like when Barney tries to beat me at bowling – sneaky!

Meet the Middle Class The Real Winners?

Christopher Rim some hotshot at Command Education says the middle class is gonna be the big winner here. Colleges need rich kids to donate after all. So they ain't gonna kick 'em out. It's like the Slate Rock and Gravel Company – they need me to run that bronto crane but they ain't gonna pay me what I'm worth!

Debt? Yabba Dabba Don't!

Speaking of money these kids are scared stiff about debt! College costs are going through the roof higher than Dino can jump! Tuition's been climbing faster than a saber tooth tiger up a tree! Makes you wanna hide your clams under a rock. But some of these colleges they don't have enough to offer tuition free for students and most are tuition driven.

Don't Give Up Hope Little Guys!

But hold your horses! James Lewis from the National Society of High School Scholars (try saying that five times fast!) says don't throw in the towel just yet! Even if the sticker price looks scarier than a Wilma sized grocery bill there's still hope for scholarships financial aid and even work study. So keep your chin up little rockheads! And remember Yabba Dabba Doo!