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[quote=Anonymous]I guess I’m lucky to have never had to think about this. My parents were painstakingly fair - at some point years later my dad asked me and sibling A whether we thought it was OK that they had helped out sibling B with fertility treatment costs which sibling A and I had not needed - but the three of us all went to the same private high school and similar SLACs with no merit, so the only difference was that the youngest was more expensive. Only one of my two kids will be able to go to college - the other one has special needs which are significant enough that he may not be able to live independently.

My in-laws sat my DH down after he had applied to colleges and told him that they had spent all their money on his older sister and he had to go wherever he got in that would give him a full scholarship. He had gotten in to two Ivys and several other really good schools and couldn’t go, and while he loves the school that gave him a full rider is still a bit bitter about it.

I think I’m in the if you’re covering college for both that’s fair no matter where camp, and consider the savings for the second a windfall for you. [/quote]

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