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[quote=Anonymous]I was a second generation college student. My parents both grew up in working class households. They were dismayed to learn that I didn't qualify for work study or financial aid. In their heads, they were still that working class kid working as a janitor, RA, at the library on financial aid. Meanwhile, they are a managing partner at a law firm and a head of an upper school. There was no way we were receiving anything. My parents where outraged when the FAFSA came back in the late 90s saying not only could they afford my school, but MORE. My dad could not understand how my sister and I couldn't get any work study jobs and didn't help out with college. So I had a bunch of creepy jobs while attending the Big State U. Meanwhile, my DH went to a private school fully paid by a merit scholarship while his parents paid for living expenses, bought him a new car, etc. I was working at a bar, as an academic tutor, as a waitress, at a collection agency, at the university college all while going to class full-time. It was HELL.[/quote]

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