Reply to For full-pay families: how much do you ask your DC to pay for?

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

Reply to "For full-pay families: how much do you ask your DC to pay for?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We pay for tuition, room, board, and transportation to and from school. We also pay for extras as necessary, such as for example, supplemental funding if they need it for a valuable internship or similar.

They are responsible for paying for their extra expenses, entertainment, meals out, any travel that’s not to and from campus or to and from the location of an internship or similar, books.

They work very part-time during the school year. According to studies, students who work 10 or 15 hours a week perform better academically than those who don’t.

https://hrs.byu.edu/00000173-96c6-d29f-a3f7-f6c7783a0000/effects-of-student-employment
[/quote]

My kid hasn't worked during college and they are at a T30, majoring in a Chem Engineering and have a 3.9+ gpa as a senior.  Not sure how much better having a job would make them.

Hint: I was a Work study kid, who struggled to pay for college and anything fun in college.  The reason those kids tend to do better is because they know they cannot afford to mess it up.  College and doing well is their ticket out of lower income lifestyle they grew up with.  So it's not so much the "job during college" as it is the desire to change their overall lifestyle.

But I'd disagree and say there are plenty of kids who don't have to work who also do exceedingly well, without all the stresses [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics