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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I do see parents who have money and are are willing to spend money on every lifestyle luxury but education. It’s their money and their choice but for a student who worked hard to get accepted in a highly selective college, it’s puzzling because parents won’t pay and because of their wealth, student can’t qualify for financial aid, colleges don’t offer merit scholarship so there is no way for these students to afford cost of attendance. [/quote]

It always astonishes me that people think they know everything about another family's financial situation and feel entitled to opine on how others can or should spend their money.

It also surprises me (although on DCUM it should not) that people believe that a family who they think can afford to pay $320,000 for an undergraduate degree for each of their multiple children, should pay $320,000 for each of them.  People seem to believe that the degree from the elite school is worth it no matter the actual value of the dollars, how it might be spent in other ways, whether its expenditure will in fact provide more opportunities for a student from an UMC family.

Finally, it is striking that people believe that a student who works hard should be rewarded with a $320,000 education at an elite school, as if the same student educated elsewhere will surely fail and end up working at the 7-11.

Striking.[/quote]

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