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[quote=Anonymous]I mean not necessarily cruel, and I’m not sure why you feel it is any of your business.

Maybe they have requirements that the older kids didn’t meet, such as a minimum GPA requirement, or the student paying a certain percentage of the cost, etc.

My parents required me to save up enough money to cover my first year of college, and then they would cover the other three years. I saved up, my younger brother did not. They also required us to maintain a minimum 4.0 GPA in high school (we both did).

Ultimately, we both ended up getting a degree, but it was harder for him because he didn’t put in the work when he was younger. College is expensive, and my parents wanted to make sure we were engaged and would be successful before they spent that much money on it.

So no, it is not necessarily bad. Now, if they are just paying for their youngest’s college because they just randomly feel like it, I would feel a little bad for the older kids, but I don’t (and you likely don’t) know what the conditions that younger kid had to meet to have his parents pay for college (and that, theoretically, older kids didn’t meet).[/quote]

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