I think you&#x27;re right it doesn&#x27;t help those who don&#x27;t have a culture of education.  I.e. people who &quot;are first in the family to attend college&#x2F;uni&quot; of which many are minorities but also a great many are poor whites.<p>But.... It does help a lot of kids who find it hard to afford college&#x2F;uni while also having other responsibilities.<p>Those people who sell a pint here and there to afford gas to get to class, etc.  It&#x27;s not an insignificant amount of people.<p>So chip at this first, then chip away at the abjectly poor or who simply don&#x27;t think they have a chance at college&#x2F;uni.<p>Of course there is always the danger of human nature wanting to claim, I went to uni as told but still can&#x27;t get a job.  That is it&#x27;s not just a rite of passage, you have to show personal progress.