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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP,  you want to know what gutted feels like?  I was accepted to two top 25 schools coming out of a public high school from an UMC family.  I hadn't received any grooming with zero SAT courses, tutors or advisors.  I l sorted it all on my own, working my tail off and figuring out the logistics with no guidance or support.  After receiving my acceptances, my father told me that he didn't believe in girls spending money on college because they "just end up staying home with kids anyways."  He refused to spend even a cent on college for me.  I had no idea prior to this point that he wouldn't support me attending college--he apparently had assumed that I wouldn't get it anywhere.

I moved out the morning after high school graduation, got a job and saved every penny.  I attended a bottom third tier university that gave me massive merit aid, as I didn't qualify for need based aid based on my father's income.  I worked three jobs most of college to afford to live.

I graduated top in my college class, won a Rhodes scholarship, got a PhD from Nobel Prize winner, and have a very successful career.  I still don't speak to my father.

Your daughter has it easy.  She should go to one of those tops schools and enjoy her privilege.[/quote]

Girl.  And I say that with the utmost respect.  Not little girl, like your dad and others who would keep you down would say.  I mean Girl Power.  
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Holy crap, yes! I don’t mean to be off-topic, but you are amazing, PP!

— woman whose proud papa paid for all of my college expenses, with zero hesitation[/quote]

+100 My grandfather had the same attitude about girls but that was back in the 1950s and my mom didn't want to go to college anyway. But then she and my dad paid 100% for my college.  PP's dad is a total ass.[/quote]

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