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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My parents paid 1/3 of official college bills (so nothing when I moved off-campus) and nothing after.  They thought it would build character.  It built something, alright - the inability to take non-paying internships related to my field because I had to work, and a mound of debt (even at a state school) that I still have to this day.  It also instilled in me the (bad) decision to go to a lower ranked/more affordable graduate program when I would have been much better paid had attended the higher ranked/more expensive programs.  Thanks, parents.  I will not make the same mistakes with my children.[/quote]

Bitterness is bad.   Get over yourself.  They owed you nothing for college.[/quote]

Not PP but GFY. Having Parents who foot the bill for college and grad school provides an enormous advantage and you know it.[/quote]

Of course it does. And it's a wonderful gift if you can swing it. The overwhelming majority of people in this country cannot. I know mine could not but they paid about 20k and I paid about 20k and then got a half scholarship. I consider myself lucky my parents could do it at all. Yes. I started life behind kids who come from more money, I had to lifeguardand wait tables instead of interning (which honestly most interns learn NOTHING they do crap grunt projects) but anger isn't going to make my hustle better. [/quote]

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