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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I’m an immigrant. Came to the U.S. as a foreign student. My parents paid for tuition and housing in college while I worked on campus all other expenses (food, going out, etc.). Once I got my first job a couple of months after graduating ($25,000 a year; this was over 20 years ago), I told them I didn’t need any more financial support. It was such a huge financial undertaking to send me the to US that becoming financially independent asap was all I could think of during college. So honestly, it really depends on your kids and their expectations. I expect to pay tuition and most housing expenses throughout college for my kids now. But I also expect them to work to finance everything else, food, clothes, entertainment, cell phone, etc. They are always welcome to live at home to transition from college or to save for a down payment. Good luck![/quote] This is why many immigrants in this country are successful even with some tough obstacles in their way. An example would be Boston Public High schools and their valedictorians. They are almost exclusively new immigrants. One South American student came to the US over the age of 13 with no English and ended up graduating at the top of the class. There are 33:high school valedictorians in the city and the graduating class of 2023 are going to the following schools - Harvard x2, Emory, BU, Wesleyan, Wellesley BHCC, Union College, Curry College, UMass Boston, UMass Amherst, Centre College, John’s Hopkins x2, Wentworth, 13 of them going to Northeastern University. Northeastern has full tuition and room and board for Boston valedictorians. Most want to stay close to their families and I don’t blame them. About a third were born outside the US from China, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Honduras, Indonesia, and Jamaica. https://www.bostonpublicschools.org/site/default.aspx?PageType=3&DomainID=4&ModuleInstanceID=14&ViewID=6446EE88-D30C-497E-9316-3F8874B3E108&RenderLoc=0&FlexDataID=41603&PageID=1 [/quote]
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