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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe this crap was fine when college cost 500 bucks a semester but very few teens are coughing up 100% of $15,000 to $40,000 cash a semester without parental help.

It's bullsh**.

I just posted this in another thread, our son ended up failing out of university. We'd find out many months later the warns signs were VERY obvious to the university. He was not attending class, he was caught with booze in his room by campus police, he was even fired from his campus job! We knew none of this while they continued to cash our $15,000 checks each semester!

Lesson learned. Make your child sign the disclosure release right after they're admitted as a 12th grader. They'll have no idea what they're signing, so just have them do it and act like it's normal. The university does not care about you, they only care about cashing your checks and freezing you out of your child's life.[/quote]

+1000 This!

This anecdote happens more often that you'd think.  And for the "professors" and college admin "shills" posting here defending "this crap", you're hiding behind an archaic law in a bid to preserve revenue and help your job security, but with no accountability whatsoever. That's isn't the real-world and especially not at current costs, find a different line of work.  No one cares about 'pizza parlor basement' politics or student-parent communication when it comes to this.  In no other aspect of your life would you allow someone to enthusiastically and swiftly cash your checks for thousands of $s regularly but won't allow any questions whatsoever about the product from the payor,  that's a product that shouldn't be purchased and needs to go under. 
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