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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Question for the professor couples (I'm the OP, thanks for all the replies): do you plan to send your kids to the professor's school? I think you can do it with very little in tuition fees?[/quote]It depends on the institution.  When I taught in the state-supported Virginia system, there was no tuition break for faculty and employee kids.  However, other schools do give tuition breaks and you can also use that tuition break at other colleges through an exchange system.  But it's still not a lot at some places.  My cousin, who teaches at a liberal arts college, gets very small tuition support from her school for her kids.

At dh's university, the school makes most faculty kids pay 1/3 of the tuition if they attend their parents' school but they also will pay 1/3 of the kids' tuition to other colleges through the exchange.  Dh was hired in a short window where the promise was free tuition for the kids at his institution.  Still, for a long time, we thought about sending our kid to a state school out of state -- between the 1/3 tuition and the DC Tag helping to cover out of state tuition, it would cover a lot of costs.  But the kid decided to attend dh's university and we've been fortunate to get free tuition. But, like I said, some places offer no breaks and very small breaks.  It really depends on where you work.[/quote]

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