<p>So I don't find out what my tuition is going to be until July, but I should be hearing back from financial aid next week. In total, I should be given a minimum of $11k a year and my university should be about $20k a year... I'm trying to think of how much I should ask my parents to pay and hoping that $5k isn't too much.</p>
<p>But anyways... How much do your parents pay?</p>
<p>Mine do about $8k a year.</p>
<p>Absolutely all of it.</p>
<p>My parents saved enough money to send me to our state university system. Since I’m going to one of those schools, my education is paid for. I’m grateful for that since I will be going to law school on loans (unless by some miracle I get a scholarship(s)).</p>
<p>Mine pay $0.</p>
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Did you ask your parents how much they were willing to contribute when you decided where to apply? It seems like that conversation is long overdue at this point.</p>
<p>all of it
i don’t qualify for financial aid</p>
<p>my parents started saving even before i was born, so they have quite a bit of money saved up and so far in my freshman year have paid all of it. it will make me feel a lot better when i don’t have to live in the dorm anymore, which will save like $10,000 a year (apartment is way cheaper). i also have a lot of money saved up myself and pay for my own books and will be getting a job this summer and next year</p>
<p>my family doesn’t qualify for any type of financial aid, so my parents pay for all of it. i’m transferring to a UC next fall and my sister is just ending high school and is attending a university also. It’s running my parents $30,000 for each of us. $60,000 total for a year</p>
<p>^wow, blkbox.</p>
<p>My parents offered to pay for all 4 years if I would do the general eds at a community college first, allowing me to graduate debt free. So, all of it.</p>
<p>Probably about -$3000. My parents pay nothing and, in fact, I tend to help them quite often.</p>
<p>About $48000. And yes, I’m very grateful and appreciative.</p>
<p>Thankfully, my tuition and room/board are paid for by scholarships.</p>
<p>My parents help out with books and stuff I may need, so maybe around $1000 this year, so far.</p>
<p>All of it. Tens of thousands a year. We already discussed it beforehand …</p>
<p>We go halfsies.</p>
<p>They have had a banking account for my college tuition ever since I was a wee little kid. They paid everything, though financial aid actually covered almost all my tuition (so we don’t know what to do with the saved-up money, haha). But my parents also bought me a super bomb-ass, expensive car, which I totally felt that I didn’t deserve. ):</p>
<p>About $8k/year from a $140-180k salary, so I’m getting loans…</p>
<p>@mintymint- How are you getting FA if you have all that money saved up AND your parents can afford to give you an expensive car?</p>
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Actually, I decided to go to my state university specifically because it was the most affordable option. My first choice school would have been $30k more per year.</p>
<p>But my EFC is 0… so, yeah. I think my parents will be willing to pay as much as they do now for my high school education… which is about $6 or 7k. Even if they don’t pitch in anything (which they are going to… at least that’s what my dad’s said), my tuition shouldn’t be more than about 9k per year and I plan on getting a job, so I shouldn’t be buried in a financial hole.</p>
<p>$6000 a year</p>
<p>No financial aid here. I think my parents pay $10 a month for my prescription and that’s about it.</p>