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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]But 16.13, did ur parents have an income of a million dollars a year? The system Is set up so that there is hardly any aid, i culding loans, available for kids from such wealthy families. Merit scholarships are very rare.[/quote]

Not $1m per year, but certainly enough to disqualify me from aid.  I think I got $500 Pell Grants each year based on groveling essays I wrote to explain my lack of parental support, but the rest was loans I worked hard to pay back.  My parents just did not believe their role was to pay for my college.  My college was my life choice, and paying for it was my responsibility.  If I'd wanted to skip college and start working immediately, that would have been a viable alternative in their minds, because that's what many of their peers had done when they grew up.

To be clear, I'm not suggesting my parents' approach was ideal.  I wish they'd paid for my college, and I'm saving to help pay for my children's college.  But I don't necessarily understand an attitude that all parents are automatically expected to pay for their children's college.  If, for example, it becomes clear my child plans to enroll in some super expensive college like Sarah Lawrence, just to earn C grades, smoke dope and listen to old Phish CDs, then I will feel little obligation to pay for it.  But since she will be an adult, I will not be able to forbid her from enrolling.  I can only refuse to pay for it.[/quote]

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