If there was 1 merit scholarship in all the world and you recieved it while 20 million college students were in debt would you be writing "I can personally contradict your claim" since debt doesn't effect you personally? You see the problem with your logic, no?
You're right, there probably aren't enough merit scholarships for everyone. But, state schools are still pretty reasonably priced. Furthermore, any student could have done the work to earn those, but didn't. So maybe you can see why my sympathy is limited. I spent my high school years working to save for college and to excel in my academics while others played video games and partied. The fact that there aren't enough merit scholarships for everyone doesn't change the fact that any one of them could have made choices that would have earned them scholarships, and didn't.
