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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]16:13- I am the one who posted millionaire parents who don't pay for college are big fat jerks. It sounds like you had great parents.  They provided for you the best that they could.  You knew that you were going to be on your own for college.  Your parents had provided enrichment opportunities and had shown you through both actions and words that education was important.  Emotionally, you had a lot of support.

The wealthy parents who choose not to pay for their kids' colleges are just selfish twits for the most part.  It's a horrible feeling when your parents have the resources and as a child you had been responsible earning good grades etc to find out that your senior year of high school that college for you was not in their cards.  As a high performing child, you feel really let down or like your parents really didn't love you particularly when the trade off is a new $150K boat etc.  It's hard.[/quote]

All right, I get that.  Only way I made it to and through college was generous financial aid (before any government haters hate here - I paid back my loans in full).  Have been completely independent since a month after I graduated from college.  Parents loaned me money to attend an Ivy for grad school and I paid it back with interest as they took a hit by cashing in some retirement money.  I knew a few folks in college with parents similar to above.  In most instances, the parents had divorced and the father continually reminded the children that their financial obligation ended when the kid turned 18.  Seemed so harsh.  One of the women dropped using her father's name and changed it as soon as she had saved enough to do so.  FWIW, when I was six, I asked my parents what came after high school.  They didn't know many folks who went to college, but they did say, "college, but we can't afford that, so you will need to save if you want to go."  Of course, there was no possible way to save to afford school outright, but I did have enough to work ten, not fifteen, hours/week - those extra five hours really helped my grades.  [/quote]

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