A lot of prestigious schools offer a number of hardship full-ride scholarships every year to "promising students from difficult situations who have overcome hardship." providing them an opportunity to get ahead and break the cycle of poverty.
He may have had a bad experience, but I support those programs. They work. My friend Dwayne is becoming an engineer on such a program, the son of two HS dropouts living in the Marcy projects in Brooklyn on the full array of NYS social services. His kid will have a better upbringing in a nicer place for it, D's life-earning potential several times more than it would be if he wasn't afforded this opportunity to attend Fordham on the charity of the alumni of that institution.
The way some self-identifying Democrats talk, you'd think it would be better to perpetuate a permanent underclass if doing so might save them a dime or a quantum of aggravation. They even gripe and oppose hand-ups that don't even personally negatively affect them. 
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