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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]
Parents paying for undergrad = family money.[/quote]

That's awfully glib.  In my case, that "family money" was the Social Security survivors' benefits my sister and I both received when our mother died.  My dad controlled it, invested it, and used it to pay our college tuition.  Please try not to make such sweeping generalizations.[/quote]

I agree.  In my case it was parents who worked their tails off in the restaurant business.  Instead of using that money for fancy cars or fancy vacations they used it to send me and my brother to college.  [/quote]

I was middle class.  No family money, yet my parents somehow sent 5 kids to college.  We had to pay for grad school, but they paid for undergrad and I'm very grateful. DH's parents were very blue collar, yet they paid for his college and most of law school.   DH and I started out with a condo in 1999.  It was $300 and we put down 10%, I think.  We made $100K on the sale and put it into a house.  We just sold that house and were able to put $300K into our $700K house that we own now.  WE live near WFC metro in FFX county and our kids go to public school.  I'm happy with where we are.  I'm not sure that private school would be worth the added expense.  If we thought it was, we'd struggle to make it happen.  Instead, we're focusing on saving for college.  I'd like to be able to do what my and DH's parents did.[/quote]

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