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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Reality check -  No one owes their child a college education.  Especially an expensive private.  My daughter could have been admitted anywhere. Perfect SAT.  Plus, a National Merit Scholar.  4.45 GPA.  We were totally upfront starting in ninth grade with all our kids. We will pay in-state tuition at a public university.  If you choose private or OOS, you cover the difference.

All my kids got academic scholarships at great public universities.  We don’t qualify for need based assistance.  They all graduated, got really good jobs, and gave no student loan debt.  One of them did ROTC and was commissioned.  He now draws Captains pay while the Army fully funds his medical school.

Teach your kids to make good financial decisions.  I would love to drive a Lexus.  I can’t afford a Lexus and will not go into debt for a car.  I drive a really nice Toyota.  It doesn’t have the Lexus logo on it.  But it does the job. [/quote]

Nobody owes their kid anything after they turn 18.

They DO owe their kids an up front explanation of what they’re willing to pay for. It looks like you did that. But OP’s ex participated in the process—by signing the FAFSA and presumably not being totally clueless about where she was applying—yet he failed to have that conversation.

Worse, assuming he had even the most minimal conversation with his daughter about her application process, she may have taken his silence as a tacit OK.[/quote]

TY! This is Parenting 101. [/quote]

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