Anonymous
Post 01/11/2019 10:49     Subject: If I am full pay, am I a sucker?
Anonymous wrote:Actually we all are. For voting into office ineffective representatives that cannot keep cost of education down for the future of the country. For allowing these colleges that build huge endowments to be non profit. For not having a solid elementary and secondary education free to all children, not just those who live in wealthy neighborhoods/wealthy. For allowing student loans cripple our economy and our children’s future.

Change the student loans structure: the universities give the loans and the kids pay back from future salaries. Cut the administrative bloat. I am sure there are better and more effective ideas out there that better minds can come up with.


Purdue is doing this -- students agree to pay a percentage of post-graduation income to the university for a certain number of years. Not sure of the fine print involved.
Anonymous
Post 01/11/2019 10:30     Subject: If I am full pay, am I a sucker?
Actually we all are. For voting into office ineffective representatives that cannot keep cost of education down for the future of the country. For allowing these colleges that build huge endowments to be non profit. For not having a solid elementary and secondary education free to all children, not just those who live in wealthy neighborhoods/wealthy. For allowing student loans cripple our economy and our children’s future.

Change the student loans structure: the universities give the loans and the kids pay back from future salaries. Cut the administrative bloat. I am sure there are better and more effective ideas out there that better minds can come up with.
Anonymous
Post 01/11/2019 10:22     Subject: If I am full pay, am I a sucker?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I keep hearing this forum that people who are full pay are suckers. Honestly, the only way we could be not full pay is with merit. And there is little or no merit offered at the schools which our DS would like to attend. He has already been accepted at his first choice (top 20) school. Clearly, we will be full pay. But with an income of $800K plus, shouldn't we be? I don't see how anyone can call us suckers, when we make probably twice or more what most people on this forum make. He has been offered some merit at one of his safeties, but minimal, and certainly not worth the investment on our part. Still waiting to hear from some other schools.



No at $800,000 you can easily afford it. Problem is people who make WAY less than $800,000 are also full pay. This is who the suckers comments are geared towards.


The sucker comment is for *anyone* who full-pays. We're a high HHI house and still feel like $280K is a lot to pay for college. We'd do it for Harvard. But, anything else, we feel like suckers when there are so many other great colleges to choose from.



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Anonymous
Post 01/11/2019 10:16     Subject: If I am full pay, am I a sucker?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I keep hearing this forum that people who are full pay are suckers. Honestly, the only way we could be not full pay is with merit. And there is little or no merit offered at the schools which our DS would like to attend. He has already been accepted at his first choice (top 20) school. Clearly, we will be full pay. But with an income of $800K plus, shouldn't we be? I don't see how anyone can call us suckers, when we make probably twice or more what most people on this forum make. He has been offered some merit at one of his safeties, but minimal, and certainly not worth the investment on our part. Still waiting to hear from some other schools.



No at $800,000 you can easily afford it. Problem is people who make WAY less than $800,000 are also full pay. This is who the suckers comments are geared towards.


The sucker comment is for *anyone* who full-pays. We're a high HHI house and still feel like $280K is a lot to pay for college. We'd do it for Harvard. But, anything else, we feel like suckers when there are so many other great colleges to choose from.

Anonymous
Post 01/11/2019 10:14     Subject: Re:If I am full pay, am I a sucker?
Anonymous wrote:Reconceptualize it. Consider yourself not a sucker, but as privileged family that can afford to pay sticker price.




I think OP just wants to brag about having a HHI of $800,000.
Anonymous
Post 01/11/2019 10:12     Subject: If I am full pay, am I a sucker?
Anonymous wrote:I keep hearing this forum that people who are full pay are suckers. Honestly, the only way we could be not full pay is with merit. And there is little or no merit offered at the schools which our DS would like to attend. He has already been accepted at his first choice (top 20) school. Clearly, we will be full pay. But with an income of $800K plus, shouldn't we be? I don't see how anyone can call us suckers, when we make probably twice or more what most people on this forum make. He has been offered some merit at one of his safeties, but minimal, and certainly not worth the investment on our part. Still waiting to hear from some other schools.



No at $800,000 you can easily afford it. Problem is people who make WAY less than $800,000 are also full pay. This is who the suckers comments are geared towards.
Anonymous
Post 01/11/2019 08:50     Subject: If I am full pay, am I a sucker?
But a leech who has nice nails.
Anonymous
Post 01/11/2019 08:31     Subject: If I am full pay, am I a sucker?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:These suckers donate millions in hopes of giving their kid an opportunity at a full pay slot at a top 10. These people are too clueless to realize that Stanford is no different from Bama.


Seriously?


NP. One of my kids went to an Ivy. The other two went to solid state schools. There is a lot of truth to this even though parents don’t like to hear it. All three of my college grads are doing great. My Ivy kid isn’t doing anything the other two aren’t doing.


There is a big difference between "Bama provides a great education and opportunities" and "Stanford is no different from Bama".

One of those statements is undeniably true, and the other is, well, if you gotta ask...
Anonymous
Post 01/11/2019 08:21     Subject: If I am full pay, am I a sucker?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:These suckers donate millions in hopes of giving their kid an opportunity at a full pay slot at a top 10. These people are too clueless to realize that Stanford is no different from Bama.


Seriously?


NP. One of my kids went to an Ivy. The other two went to solid state schools. There is a lot of truth to this even though parents don’t like to hear it. All three of my college grads are doing great. My Ivy kid isn’t doing anything the other two aren’t doing.


You wasted a ton of money on those state schools. Community college is much cheaper.


I didn’t pay a dime. They went on merit scholarships. One was a NMS. The other was a finalist.
Anonymous
Post 01/11/2019 08:20     Subject: Re:If I am full pay, am I a sucker?
NP. To OP: If you don't pay full-pay you are a fraud (for saying 800K annual income) or you defraud the university where your DC will be studying. But the real suckers are the poor people who never fly on an airplane but contribute their tax dollars to airports, access roads, TSA, air traffic controllers, FAA, etc. so that people like you, the real leaches, who fly benefit. Now that you know, from now on you can call yourself with confidence that you are a leach.
Anonymous
Post 01/11/2019 08:19     Subject: If I am full pay, am I a sucker?
If you’re not full pay at an hhi of $800k, who would be?
Anonymous
Post 01/11/2019 08:15     Subject: If I am full pay, am I a sucker?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:These suckers donate millions in hopes of giving their kid an opportunity at a full pay slot at a top 10. These people are too clueless to realize that Stanford is no different from Bama.


Seriously?


NP. One of my kids went to an Ivy. The other two went to solid state schools. There is a lot of truth to this even though parents don’t like to hear it. All three of my college grads are doing great. My Ivy kid isn’t doing anything the other two aren’t doing.


You wasted a ton of money on those state schools. Community college is much cheaper.
Anonymous
Post 01/11/2019 08:01     Subject: If I am full pay, am I a sucker?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:These suckers donate millions in hopes of giving their kid an opportunity at a full pay slot at a top 10. These people are too clueless to realize that Stanford is no different from Bama.


Seriously?


NP. One of my kids went to an Ivy. The other two went to solid state schools. There is a lot of truth to this even though parents don’t like to hear it. All three of my college grads are doing great. My Ivy kid isn’t doing anything the other two aren’t doing.
Anonymous
Post 01/11/2019 07:57     Subject: If I am full pay, am I a sucker?
Anonymous wrote:These suckers donate millions in hopes of giving their kid an opportunity at a full pay slot at a top 10. These people are too clueless to realize that Stanford is no different from Bama.


Seriously?
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2019 20:01     Subject: If I am full pay, am I a sucker?
Anonymous wrote:These suckers donate millions in hopes of giving their kid an opportunity at a full pay slot at a top 10. These people are too clueless to realize that Stanford is no different from Bama.


Pour me one of whatever you are drinking.