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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is a weird cohort that dominates the DCUM college board.

The "Top 10 for a computer science degree that gives you a 6 figure income by 22 or you're wasting your money" crowd. 
I don't know any of them in real life. 
We don't come from money and we had to earn every cent we have.  We're currently middle class by DCUM standards and upper middle class by any other standard. 
We (and everyone we know in real life---and this is a large cross section of professional class people--engineers, teachers, doctors, CEOs, nurses, etc) all have some money saved for college.  We believe in paying for a 4 year degree.  We don't need that degree to be from Harvard or UVA.  We don't need it to be in computer science or pre-med.  We are committed to paying that money for our kid's college experience... whatever that might turn out to be. We will pay what we can for Harvard or Vanderbilt or Temple or Tennessee or SCAD or Berklee. We won't consider our kids to be a failure or their life "off track" if they're not pulling down 6 figures by age 22.  We won't be surprised if they switch directions or careers 4 times by age 30.  We view life as a journey and our children's lives as something that we ultimately don't much (if any) have control over.  
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You sound like the people I know IRL.  Very few kids I know will be applying to Top 10 schools or majoring in computer science.  Most parents in our group will happily pay for a mid-tier school and may get a little anxious when their kid changes their major 3 times and makes career changes, but most of the kids will turn out just fine.

DH and I were B students who went to mid-tier schools, avoided STEM as much as possible and ended up just fine as a lobbyist and lawyer.  Our kids will be just fine too going to whatever mid-tier colleges they choose.[/quote]

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