Just don't be poor. It's that simple!

It's not so much that as it is the kids bragging about being "self made" afterwards

Not sure about others but my parents have high enough salaries that we don't qualify for most offers, but we're not really rich due to paying for 2 siblings at private college and 2 in daycare (finding good daycare is really expensive) and if they took out more loans for my college, it would have been a real mess and I doubt my little siblings would get the childhood I had (from braces, private high school, good food and more than 1 Christmas present...the older siblings didn't get anything for a few years so that they could have enough for the little ones) so even tho I had all these fancy awards, I didn't even bother applying to fancy schools, I just went to the first state school to give me a full ride. Thus I am self made 0^0

I think the fact that its almost impossible to get a high quality education without loans or parental help is what's being looked down on. It's more anti-prices than anti-parents help