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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]After tuition, housing, meal plan, fees... do you have a sense of how much your kid spends per semester?

Mine kid got scholarships that cover the full tuition; I can afford the housing and other ancillary costs. But I don't know what to budget for spending money, or if I even should. I don't want them to work much, especially not freshman year.

I think my folks gave me $1000 per semester, from which I was expected to buy books and pizza and the occasional train ticket to the city/ concert ticket etc; they figured there wouldn't be much left over for booze.  :lol: [/quote]

I don't track it, but I'd say less than $2000 a semester - I just give him a credit card and let him use it for incidentals and occasional take-out meals.  I probably spoil him a little, but I don't want him to have my experience (dining hall card running out of $$ with a month of classes left, and scrambling for food with no money in my pocket).[/quote]

Same here.  I have no idea because we don't track it.  We do monitor the credit card and there is never anything excessive on there.  Food, amazon, grocery store runs are pretty much most of it.  If they go out to bars they spend their own money. [/quote]

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