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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why not use the state school option?[/quote]

A lot of middle class do it.
But the conversation with your teenager is not going to be easy.
Kid: I am so excited to be accepted to my favorite and top college in the country.
You: We can’t afford 80k a year, instead you should go to state university.
Kid : So, tell me why I was working so hard in high school?
You : Well…[/quote]

I love the inanity of this post. It only makes sense inside one very specific bubble.

I can't even imagine what parents from my rural Midwestern town would say to it. Maybe, because you were raised to work hard. Maybe, anything worth doing is worth doing right. Maybe, keep up that nonsense and you can take a couple years off to work and pay your own way through State Flagship U.

Maybe implied here is that all of the kids who work just has hard knowing only State Flagship is at the end of the rainbow for them are inherently raised better than you raised your kids. [/quote]

Some have higher aspirations than assistant manager at Menards.[/quote]

You have got to be kidding me. IDK one of my Midwestern HS classmates who graduated from a state flagship and is now working at Menards. They all run their own businesses, hold a range of professional jobs, etc. Many of the kids who graduated in the top 20 of my 500+ class were admitted to T20 schools, including a number of Ivies, but attended state flagships as that is what their parents could afford. They excelled in college and many got into great grad/professional programs, etc. [/quote]

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