BBB Passed - Should I Be Worried?

Financial Aid/Scholarships

Title, but let me explain where I'm coming from.

I'm currently in CC at the moment with a year left till I transfer for my BS. Since the BBB affects higher education funding for the foreseeable future, I've followed it in the news, and watched as its provisions kept changing.

Unfortunately it couldn't be stopped, but I'm not going to quit going to college because of it, because I'm still in undergrad getting Pell Grants. I'm considering the state of grad school in the future, which I want to do when I finish undergrad. Federal funding for research got gutted month one before even the BBB, but now Grad PLUS loans are gone and the existing programs are much less generous now.

I want to know what you all think it'll look in about 3 years. Will I even be able to get into a PhD program, and if I can, can I still get a fully funded one? Maybe someone else knows better than me, but I have tried not thinking about it since that's a while off and who knows what will change in the next 2-4 years.

I know private loans will still exist, but I promised myself I would drop out instead of taking those. Not risking that trap.

Posted Jul 9, 2025, 4:08 AM UTC

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