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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The best part of having a biglaw or other high earning spouse is that you don’t have to worry about college for your kids or worry about money. We can pay 400k each easily for our 3 kids for college and then also easily pay for their grad school tuition, weddings, etc.

If I worked all those years and could not pay for my kids college or they couldn’t attend a private university, that would bother me more than division of labor.[/quote]

I think it's much worse seeing parents paying 50K (per kid) a year for private school only to have them end up at mediocre universities which they could've gotten into just going to a public HS. [/quote]

What if 50k to them was like 2500 to you?  That is the way I think about it.  I do not miss the 50k.  Just extra money floating around.  Could it be spent somewhere else?  Not really.  Could I save for retirement?  Already put aside 400k a year.  Don't need more.[/quote]

Regardless of it being nothing to them, I think it's rather embarrassing to spend that much only for your kid to end up at like Dickinson. Of course, it's much worse if you're faking pictures of your kid on the rowing team and paying off coaches just to get them into USC.[/quote]

You seem to be confusing tv celebrities with biglaw partners in dc.[/quote]

No, I'm not. I'm saying that it's far worse what the TV celeb did (at least Huffman tried to get her kid into an Ivy), but that doesn't change the fact that I've seen a lot of private school kids of UMC parents, get into some pretty mediocre universities. It doesn't matter if you can afford to send them to PS and that it doesn't in any way put a dent into your bank account, the point is that the return on your investment is not much if they end up getting into anything less than prestigious universities.

I went to private school and ended up at meh NYU, My cousin didn't go to PS and he ended up at Yale and HLS. So understand I'm also putting myself down for wasting my parents' money. [/quote]

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