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My son and I received letters from a college in Salt Lake City informing us that we may be qualified for "scholarships" to attend their college. The director of admissions had sent me his card and two possible times, five days later, for an appointment and a phone number to call and confirm the date and the time of the appointment.
Considering that I am 72 years old, attended college in the '60s and later in the mid-'70s, and my 43-year-old son has a successful career and has no time or need to go back to college, and as a matter of curiosity, I called the number. I was told that they do indeed give such "scholarships" to folks in their 70s and even 80s.
If either one of us were in our teens or 20s, we'd be urged to borrow money from the government, at high interest, to attend their college.
Folks, these days every Tom, Dick and Harry opens a college. Unsuspecting young men and women borrow money to attend these phony schools and will receive diplomas that are not worth the paper they are written on. I am also sure that these "colleges" have lobbyists that are former members of Congress who will stop any attempt to de-legitimize them. And that is why the student loan obligations are in the trillions. Suffice to say that even Glenn Beck has opened a "university."
Behrouz Motiee
Salt Lake City