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Did your parents pa for your college?

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funkykid200
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Did your parents pay for your college and how much did they spend? Was it all or half, just want to know what most families do.
Nov 22 2012 3:48PM
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JeremyClarkson
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Yup, Good ol mom and dad are payin it all exept my books.
Nov 28 2012 11:16PM
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PeppermillReno
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Dude people don't spend their money on Bentleys.

Someone is far more likely to pay full whack at the only respectable college that admitted their child if they have paper than to cop an Aston Martin.

Rich people are extremely cheap overall but their children's education is the one thing they do spend on.

FOR example: I grew up in a suburb of Boston that is bascially in the city (was still on the subway) and had one of the best school systems in the country. Its a big city in itself (90k) so not all of it is baller but if you tell someone from any other part of Boston you are from there they think you're wealthy. My house was in the less weathly part of this townso it feed into a regular elementary school BUT my house was on on of the nicer streets in that part of the town. The street we lived on there were kids in basically every other house.

I shit you not over half of these kids went to private school. This is in one of the richest parts of boston with the best schools in the country (one of the few public school systems that Harvard or other Ivy leagues respect) and the public schools were not good enough for most of these people. They all spent extra money despite living in a town with amazing schools to try and do better. Like 30k a year more. And they weren't the super ballers with million+ houses either just middle class people. And the private schools were hardly much better than one of the 20 best public school systems in America.

My parents didn't send me to private school even though it was threatened a few times growing up. But when I got into an ill college despite being a C student they fucking paid and were more than happy that I got into a better school than 80-90% of my class despite not being in the top half of it.

Nov 28 2012 11:20PM
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.AR6rider.
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Books are overrated anyway.
Nov 28 2012 11:22PM
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Dr.Gonzo
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AND LIFELONG DEBT!!
Nov 28 2012 11:26PM
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B.Aussie
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In Australia very few parents pay for tuition. I'm paying for it all myself. My school is about $10,000 a year and I got a sport scholarship that gives me a bit of cash and a 'Commonwealth Supported Place' which is pretty much a scholarship/ loan from the government which means that I don't have to pay back any of my college fees until I have a full time job and make over $60,000 a year. And the 'loans' have no interest except inflation.
Nov 29 2012 12:21AM
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Dr.Dickless
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they covered everything i couldn't get a scholarship or loan for
Nov 29 2012 12:24AM
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errrka
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I have loans, about 6-8 thousand per year which I'm going to have to pay back when I graduate and then what isn't covered out of pocket my parents and I pay for (they're divorced) so three-ways. This year I have more in loans so it's 400 each party for the year. But then I pay for my rent, utilities, and other expenses.
Nov 29 2012 1:05AM
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squibble
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why are you so bitter?
Nov 29 2012 1:22AM
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_Garagely_
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My parents want me paying for as much as I can through work and scholarships. But what I don't pay for I know my parents will.
Nov 29 2012 1:31AM
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tBatt
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Uh, UVM, Clarkson, St Mikes, and St Lawrence are all $45k+. Right there, there are at LEAST 100 kids who are enrolled right now, not to mention the 100s that have already graduated from these places.

Hate to break it to ya, but skiing isn't exactly a poor man's sport (until you break out of mommy and daddy's support, and you're trying to ski bum on your own).

My theory on this is, if your parents comfortably have the money, why wouldn't you support your kids? So you can laugh at them for having anywhere between $20k and $200k in debt?

When I was in school, my parents would pay about $4000 each/year (about 1/4 the price of in-state tuition) and it was up to me to cover the rest. When I was at community college, Financial Aid covered tuition + books and I was paying for gas/food/activities.
Nov 29 2012 8:04AM
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andrewblackie
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I got to university for free, like everyone else in Scotland. I'm just gonna sit right here and be smug as fuck.
Nov 29 2012 8:10AM
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applejuice.
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My dad consigned on my student loans. He paid for one semester and then told me that I was on my own. He did pay for all of my housing, food, books, etc though. I'm currently $35,000 in debt but I don't regret going to college. My degree from Pitt was worth every single penny.
Nov 29 2012 8:28AM
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DeSANTIS
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My parents pay $2300 a semester total

god bless community colleges

Nov 29 2012 9:05AM
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applejuice.
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Best thing I can tell you guys who are still in college: RENT YOUR TEXTBOOKS! It saves so much money, especially if you're paying for them on your own. I went from $700-900 a semester to paying $150 to rent all of my books.
Nov 29 2012 9:09AM
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PeckMX83
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school is so ridiculous how much money it is considering what you get out of it. im a non traditional student and my parents pay for my all my college school related expenses at probably one of the most expensive public university (UNH durham) around 35 grand a year. god bless my parents having successful jobs and the kindness of paying for my bills, i simply would of not went if they didn't pay for it. Love you mom and dad!
Nov 29 2012 11:18AM
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family_vacation
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There are a lot of schools that cost around $56,000 a year. Go check out whatever college rankings list is considered the "best" and you will see that 53-57k is almost the standard sticker price at lot of private colleges. In fact some of the best public schools are up here as well. UC Berkely costs $55,000 a year for an out-of-state student.

There are more NSers that you guys would think who go to places like these. I go to a school in this price range and I think its important to remember that the sticker price often has nothing to do with one's aid package. There are kids paying less to attend my school than they would to go to one of their respective state schools. I'm befitting from financial aid and so is the majority of the student body.

Nov 29 2012 12:10PM
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annex_
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same here.
Nov 29 2012 2:11PM
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applejuice.
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Damn, that's lucky. Pitt, Penn State, and UVM are the most expensive public uni's in the country.
Nov 29 2012 2:19PM
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Blurst
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What the fuck? Why is it that expensive?
Nov 29 2012 2:22PM
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volvotom
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At what point does the cost exceed the benefit?

Is the $50+k/year for some private schools (assuming no grants, scholarships, etc) really twice or three times better than the $17ishk/year for top end public schools?

There are a lot of high end public universities like UCLA, Berkeley, UMichigan, UVirginia, UNC Chapel Hill that are academically superior to many of the top private schools at a fraction of the price.


Nov 29 2012 2:33PM
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NotoriousT.S.E
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^ Not for out of state students though.
Nov 29 2012 2:40PM
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BNik
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Hell naw working two jobs and still getting 70 plus days on the mountain and full time student. #bigkidpromblems
Nov 29 2012 2:47PM
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Sno.
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You going to do the same for your own kids?
Nov 29 2012 3:15PM
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Sno.
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agreed. Also, going to a decent community college and transferring the way I did isn't a bad route. My diploma looks no different than someone who went to the university all four years.
Nov 29 2012 3:17PM
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klayer_9
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my parents pay half because my dad is a professor.
Nov 29 2012 3:31PM
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skiminnesota
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just wondering for those faced with the gut wrenching decision of letting their parents pay $200k for their education. (not kidding i wouldnt let my parents pay that much, i sometimes feel guilty for what they have paid)


would you if given the choice between going to a school that costs a measly 25k (as if thats cheap) and then having your parents cut you a check for 100k upon graduation, still choose to spend 200k on YOUR UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION?
Nov 29 2012 5:12PM
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KrazyistKarl
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I can't believe no one else has said anything about trades.
How many people are looking for jobs that their degrees did not get them?

I will recap, my school cost me $-4000, total of 8 months of school in a 4 year apprenticeship during which I was actually making money the whole time, and now that I'm a journeyman I'm on track to make over 130k a year. I can easily find a higher paying job. I have a flexible schedule with a lot of time off and being a Canadian journeyman, considered to be among the best trained electricians in the world, I can also work in pretty much any other country.

Today was payday, $3000 for 55hrs of work /claim.

TRADES.
Nov 29 2012 6:15PM
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Sno.
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Some trades are back breaking though and can really wear a person out physically. Electrician is probably one of the better ones. Being a painter, laborer, or floor coverer would suck I would think.
Nov 29 2012 7:06PM
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KrazyistKarl
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Coming from a stuccoing and stone mason family (3rd generation) I know all about back breaking work. Luckily even with that I worked contract work for my dad, and he gave me all the easiest jobs, it wasn't hard to make a couple thousand dollars a weekend while I was in high school.
As far as trades go, in order of hardest work and lowest pay to least work and most pay it goes residential construction, then commercial construction then industrial construction. Any trade in industrial will make money and have a nice and safe working pace to make work as easy and less strenuous as possible. Today I was cold, so it took me 4 hours to locate a diesel heater, find a hitch for the truck, pull it over, throw a tarp around my working area, then I finally got started on my task. And I work non union, if it was a union job a laborer would have brought me the heater then scalfolders and Carpenters would have built a hoarding for me while I wait to start the task.
Nov 29 2012 7:47PM
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Casey
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They must do things pretty differently in Canada, I've been in the laborers Union for the last 6 years pouring concrete for highrises and other commercial projects, and when I was layed off I did some residential remodels and whatnot, in my experience your rating of hardest work to easiest is completely backwards. Anyway the main point of this post was to leave you with this:

What do you get when you put 5 electricians and 5 lesbians in a room together?

10 people that don't do dick

 lol have a nice day.

Nov 30 2012 12:53AM
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Bread_Fish
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Where do you go to college?
Nov 30 2012 12:56AM
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Sno.
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Yeah I know quite a bit about trades, actually. I'm a senior administrative assistant for the director of Impact Property Services, which is the trades division of the Seattle Housing Authority.

So basically at my office,its my boss, me, a receptionist, and 180 trades supervisors and trades workers.

That being said, we're Federal Government, and the guys have it pretty good-- they're union and have good benefits, but the aging work force is really prone to injuries and they all show signs of their many years of manual labor-- that's what I was referring to when I mentioned back breaking-- when you're older and it starts to have a toll on your body.

But, I can also say that we have many electricians and they are not making 130k...i will look up their salary here in just a minute.

Nov 30 2012 12:57AM
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Sno.
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$74,298.00
Nov 30 2012 12:59AM
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