<p>Your kid will have the similar spending habits in college as in high school. The price difference will be the location of the school. Your kid will tend to gravitate toward kids who have similar spending habits. The question is how much you are willing to fund it in college vs in high school.</p>
<p>We decided to pay for everything associated with going to school - tuition, room and board, books, travel to and from home. We gave D1 same amount of allowance in college as in high school. She worked 10+ hours a week to have additional money. When she moved off campus, we gave her the cost of room and board living on campus, and she learned to budget with that money.</p>
<p>eyemammom - D1 had $200/mon to spend in high school, in college it was around $200-400.</p>