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[quote=Anonymous]In today's world - I don't consider it optional.  Of course it is actually optional -- just like someone could drop out of high school at 16, emancipate themselves from their parents and never finish school.  So high school graduation is optional, too.  So is learning to read, if you think about it.  But that's not reality.

If you want your kid to have a decent living -- 99.1% chance they have to go to college.  About 0.9% will succeed without.

I am one of the PPs whose parents paid nothing for college.  DH's parents paid for undergrad but not grad school.  I will pay for both.  That is what I have been working for -- if you working more than you literally need to survive ... then what exactly are you working for other than your family?

And to really rock everyone's world who thinks that college is optional -- I have saved more than enough for 4 years, without financial aid, for the most expensive college in the country for each DC.  Basically more than $300K per kid.  That's their money, in my view.  If they decide to go in-State (which we also prepaid), it will cost hardly anything, and their $300K will be there for them for any reasonable purpose -- grad school, house, start up... I do not consider it my money - it's theirs, with some parental approval -- can't use it for new shoes. 
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