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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do/did yours? How did you upper middle class parents have this conversation with your kids and each other?  DD wants to go out of state, kaching$ another $20 grand plus travel expenses each year for her and us parents to visit her.

My husband is delusional by telling me DD can go where she wants to go or can get in. He leads her on. He’s trying to be encouraging for her to do well enough to go.

DD is only a sophomore, in 2 years college will probably increase another 25+%.  DD is a home girl, close to us, has anxiety and some depression issues as it is.  I don’t want to pay for emergency flights for her to come home too. Our state U is huge where I wish she would go but she’d be better at a small school. Private schools in state are just as expensive as out of state these days.

If financed carefully, we could wing it with loans/cost for our two kids but i don’t want to be pinching it in my senior years/ we’re older parents. We are considered “affluent” status - on the ‘outside,’ as i don’t see financial aid coming in.😕  panicking already.
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What do you mean how do you do this?

When students start applying to college a conversation needs to be had about finances. If you do not do this you are irresponsible and a sucky parent.

They find the schools that your family can afford. How is this not discussed beforehand? Just like how employment after graduation is not discussed by many DCUM parents.

I have an extremely high HHI we can afford for all of our kids to go to Timbuckto for college and grad school and medical school and law school, we had this conversation. Of course, we did.

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