@ucbalumnus wrote: Including food, utilities, commuting costs, etc. while living with parents? These cost more than $0, though typically less than what it would cost for the student to live in his/her own."
I was talking about when I went to college. In our affluent area I don’t know many kids who commuted to college. Only 1 and she comes from a family without a ton of money…and she worked since she was about 14…so she was pretty self sufficient from an early age. I don’t know if she pays for utilities though…
I guess what I meant to say was that the kids I know/have known who lived at home and commuted to college, were paying their own tuition and a lot/most of their own expenses, whereas the kids I know (especially these days) who went away to college, had most or all of their expenses covered by their parents…