Spin off: where did you go to college and where are your kids actually going?

[Anonymous]

Parents: Messiah University, University of Birmingham
Kid: Brown

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Carnegie Mellon University for undergrad for both of us.
Kid is going to our local community college. (couldn't get in, no way for us to afford it anyway)

CMU grads not able to afford one private tuition?

Just curious as DS is headed to CMU engineering in a few weeks. He chose CMU over RPI (w 1/2 merit offer) for the reputation and program. This makes me wonder if he should’ve picked RPI for the savings.

NP. Yes, it is indeed possible that someone doesn’t have $250,000 saved for college, regardless of where they attended.

Friend, Carnegie Mellon is closer to $320,000 for four years

[Anonymous]

Me: top LAC, then a Masters at Mason PT while working FT (in state tuition-woot)
Him:barely graduated HS, military, CC to Mason all PT while working FT, graduated with an EE degree in his early 30s when our first was 4

Teen in HS, but looking at Radford and ODU instate and a bunch of other non-DCUM approved schools in PA, NC, NJ, RI and MA. She could possibly start at NVCC. She has similar learning difficulties to her father and we just want what is best for her.

2nd daughter is too young, but she seems to be a better student so far.

[Anonymous]

Me: well-ranked public U in California
DH: regional commuter public U because he had to live at home

Kid 1: VT
Kid 2 (rising senior): Mainly applying to less selective LACs and smaller regional public Us

[Anonymous]

I went to big state U in Midwest, then Johns Hopkins for master's. DH went to rival in-state big U, has MBA from online university. DK1 went to VT. DK2 possibly transferring from smaller public VA U to GMU for a specific major. DK1 aiming for Ivy level for PhD.

[Anonymous]

Parents: University of Arkansas

Kids: Swarthmore (2), Princeton

[Anonymous]

Me: UMD
Him: Northwestern

Kids: Haverford, CMU

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Parents: Messiah University, University of Birmingham
Kid: Brown

we are similar:
Wheaton and Messiah
We grew up in the Evangelical bubble.

Kids (Twins): Chicago and Columbia.
Kid #3 is a high school sophomore.

[Anonymous]

Parents- Brandeis and Tufts
Children - UMich, NYU, Tufts and ….? (One more still in HS)

[Anonymous]

Parents: Him: Fordham. Her: Community College
DC1 - High School Dropout
DC2 - No College
DC 3 - CalTech
DC 4: USNA
DC5: MIT

[Anonymous]

Parents: University of Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s College

Kids: Dartmouth and UCLA.

[Anonymous]

Tennessee (Dad)
South Carolina (Mom)

(We were trailer trash, literally, lol). Poor AF according to DCUM standards (soon to be retired teachers).

DD. Wellesley, UVA med school
DS UCLA, Stanford law school

[Anonymous]

Parents: Univ of Minnesota/UCLA grad and USC

Kids: Both at University of Edinburgh.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Parents: Him: Fordham. Her: Community College
DC1 - High School Dropout
DC2 - No College
DC 3 - CalTech
DC 4: USNA
DC5: MIT

All boys?

[Anonymous]

mom: Alfred University
dad: Rochester Institute of Technology
kids:
Case Western, Belmont, Haverford