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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ugh, parents who make a million a year should pay for their kids' colleges! First, you are screwing your kids if not because they can't qualify for most of the aid that is out there! Second, that aid should be reserved for kids who otherwise couldn't afford it, not for people whose parents are making a million a year. Absurd.[/quote]

[b]I'm a PP whose parents did not pay for college[/b].  I think the attitude is largely a generational one.  My parents felt that when I became an adult at age 18, I had all the rights and responsibilities of an adult.  I could do whatever I wanted with my life without interference from them, and they were under no obligation to care for me.  Of course they were still my parents, so they'd invariably try to meddle in my life in ways I did not appreciate, and they'd also offer to help me in ways I did appreciate.  But that relationship was between two autonomous adults, not an adult-child relationship.  My parents both grew up in relatively rural areas in the 1940s and 1950s, so lots of their peers and older siblings (and certainly their own parents) got married and started their own families around age 18-23.  My parents were (respectively) the first and the second people in their families to ever attend college.  So it's entirely understandable to me that they would not pay for college for me.  That was my responsibility.

I must admit, I'm sort of surprised to learn that so many people here (who I assume are in the same 35-45 year old cohort I am) had parents who paid for college.  I just assumed that most people went to college on federal loans, with only minimal supplements of "free money" financial aid, like I did.  I assumed many others who came from wealthier families had bigger family subsidies, but I also assumed nearly everyone took out federal loans.[/quote]

You still have not answered the question:

1) if your parents did not pay for college, did they also have an annual income of 1 million dollars declared on their Fed Tax return? ( obvious if your parents were poor they could not have paid) The question is not that. The question is : who in this town had millionaire parents who refused to pay, refused to c-sign AND claimed you as a dependent.

2) how did you qualify for loans without them co-signing on the loan ?

3) how did you get grants , given you being declared their dependent and them having an annual income of 1 million dollars?[/quote]

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