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[quote=Anonymous]It seems like you've done a good job instilling smart financial management, why punish her with making her pay for application fees if you can easily afford it? Isn't it a little late to be asking her to pay now, when applications are due in the next several months? Isn't the lesson you're trying to teach is to save up for things she wants, not spring a 1K bill on her for something that hadn't expected to pay? If she is being flighty and wants to apply to a dozen schools without even thinking about them, then yes, you pay for the first 8 applications and she pays for any extra. But unless she is changing her mind every week, wants to apply to all the same schools as her friends etc, it seems like a pretty harsh punishment to make her pay for these.

I think it's fine to have her pay the parking permit if she wants to bring a car on campus, and work out a budget where you pay for required things that you can afford and she pays for any extras. Let her focus on school work and getting establish in a new place without all the added stress. Basic clothes, you buy, fancy dress for a sorority party, that's on her.

You've done a good job so far, don't screw it up now! [/quote]

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