No financial aid- no student debt

[Anonymous]

How many of you had no financial aid but have no student debt for undergrad, grad or professional degrees? Who paid? Parents? Scholarships? Grandparents? Employers?

[Anonymous]

Why do you ask OP?

Parents paid for undergrad (I chose to got to a SLAC instead of full ride at state university). I had a fellowship for grad school that paid tuition and a stipend.

[Anonymous]

Parents paid for undergrad.

I worked full-time and paid for law school at night.

[Anonymous]

Full scholarships to undergrad and law school. Lived at home.

[Anonymous]

Parents paid.

[Anonymous]

Parents for both of us, including grad school and med school. We're doing the same for our kids.

[Anonymous]

Trust fund from grandparents paid for undergrad

Parents paid law school tuition, my trust paid my living expenses

I will say my trust was just enough to keep me out of student debt but not enough so I could live lavishly afterwards. I was cushioned from having to worry about money and didn’t really get how much money you need to earn to be comfortable. Went into public interest law. Now a lot of my classmates who took out loans make and have more money than I do and live a nicer lifestyle.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How many of you had no financial aid but have no student debt for undergrad, grad or professional degrees? Who paid? Parents? Scholarships? Grandparents? Employers?

OP, why are you asking this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How many of you had no financial aid but have no student debt for undergrad, grad or professional degrees? Who paid? Parents? Scholarships? Grandparents? Employers?

Me, my parents paid (I went to private)

My spouse went ROTC

Our kids, we are paying (one OOS flagship, one private)

[Anonymous]

I went to an in-state public. Parents paid….tuition was like $6k per year in the late 90s. I had a part time job to pay for food/incidentals.

[Anonymous]

Parents paid. It was for a SLAC when the total cost was under $15K per year in the 80s. I paid for grad school with loans and scholarships.

[Anonymous]

My parents paid for undergrad- I chose an in-state public instead of an SLAC to avoid debt. I had a fellowship with full tuition and a stipend for my first graduate degree. I then got a job at a university with tuition waivers for staff, so I got a second graduate degree.

[Anonymous]

International students don't qualify for aid or loans and pay cash by working in restaurants. I know about 30 who did so, and two nannies.

[Anonymous]

I had an athletic scholarship. DH did ROTC.

[Anonymous]

Me. Parents paid for undergraduate degree at an OOS public. Company paid for MBA at a private university where I went in the evenings while working FT.