<p>It’s a trade off ^^
her parents pay for hers, she pays for her brother’s. </p>
<p>I’m helping out with my little sister’s(11yo). At least undergrad because she might want to go to med school. That’s how it is in some families. </p>
<p>And since my mom is a single mother, I’ve been a parent my entire life and I have a more attached parental relationship with my sister.</p>
<p>My dad would pay the full thing, but I would never ask him to because he bought me a brand new 32k$ car last year and I would feel awful.</p>
<p>My mom doesn’t really have any $ to contribute, but she did say that she would pay for my books if she had to. I don’t know what my aid packages to the last 3 schools I’ve applied to will look like, but I already have a full ride to UMiami… So if anything I’m going there. </p>
<p>I don’t want loans, nor do I want my parents paying more than 2k$ per year for my college education. I’m not going into a field that will allow me to make the money back lol, I’m going into the Peace Corps.</p>
<p>none, im hoping for fafsa, grants and scholarships</p>
<p>My parents are paying for everything so I’m leaning towards the public options. I’d feel really bad asking them to pay $50k a year when I can easily save them $30k x 4 years.</p>
<p>my EFC is 0 and I have no intention of paying loans so I better start looking for scholarships now.</p>
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<p>yeah, pretty much what CPUsci said. I pay for his, my parents will pay for mine. He’s six right now, so I’ll be about 28 when he’s going to college.</p>
<p>Rrcj- sorry for assuming you’re a girl lol. </p>
<p>But At least you have time. I’ll be 22 when my sister starts college.</p>
<p>^lol, no worries, I am a girl, so you’re fine. xD</p>
<p>Girl power :)</p>
<p>I was just discussing it with my parents. Our EFC is pretty high, but in reality, it’s much lower, given my moms job is not a stable one (she does consulting work). They can probably chip in about 15-20k at max, but I’ll be left with the brunt of my education. Wompwomp… I’ll probably end up with 160-180k debt by the time I graduate (yikes).</p>
<p>And I have to help pay for my 9-yr-old sisters college as well. Yikes >.<</p>
<p>Hopefully most of it…we can afford instate at UMich so hopefully they won’t be jerks and make me take out loans</p>
<p>My parents paid for all of my sister’s UPenn education (practically no financial aid), as well as her living expenses. I’m not sure how much money that is, and I’m also not sure how my parents are able to afford it; my guess is that they actually can’t.</p>
<p>For my education? I’m a senior, and so far I have some nice scholarships and financial aid from “lower-ranked” top tier schools. For some bizarre reason, though, my parents say that they’ll feel guilty for spending so much on my sister, and then having me attend a “non-UPenn-caliber” (I don’t subscribe to this belief. The quality of the education depends more on the quality of the student than that of the school.) college on scholarship. I think what will happen is that I’ll take a full ride to one of my schools, and then my parents will help me pay for law school.</p>
<p>Of course, a lot of it hinges on whatever comes in the mail on Wednesday. :P</p>
<p>my parents will pay for it all. But they don’t have the money for that. I have siblings who need to go to college as well, plus a house, food, clothes etc etc. </p>
<p>All loans I pay back. But anything out of pocket is them.</p>
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WHAT. That’s enough to buy a small house… Do you think you’ll get a high paying job or something? Did you read about that girl who ended up with 200k in debt from college loans and is now completely screwed?
[College</a> Grad $200K in Debt Wants You to Pay Her Loans - Kelli Space launches the website Two Hundred Thou to solicit donations](<a href=“http://www.newser.com/story/105996/down-200k-college-grad-wants-you-to-pay-her-loans.html]College”>College Grad $200K in Debt Wants You to Pay Her Loans)
Agh.</p>
<p>Anyone that takes that much debt for sociology is an idiot, she deserves it.
The only degree that would warrant that much undergrad debt is Business or Engineering.</p>
<p>Edit: My parents are willing to pay as much as an instate UC, if I want to go to a private I have to take ~20k in debt every year.</p>
<p>@metaman: you’ve got to be kidding me!</p>
<p>Mine will be paying all of it up to 35k a semester. I don’t plan on having any debt.</p>
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<p>My parents are going to pay for all my expenses(living+education),I feel like I’m bragging,sorry…sometimes it’s good to be an asian only child, my parents have been saving since I was born for my education.
But then I’ll probably have to find my own way through law school (if I can get into a top 14 that is,I can’t risk being in debt and without a job.)</p>
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<p>In many places, that’s enough to buy quite a decent sized house. </p>
<p>My parents contribute nothing. In fact, I work three jobs and give money back to them. >.<</p>
<p>@julianly </p>
<p>I’m an asian only child too! 
They’ve saved up a college fund since I was born as well, but they can only pay $10,000-$15,000 at the most probably :-\ Their jobs aren’t very well paid, but I know they’ll shell out more if they have to since it’s my education they care about.</p>