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Hmm, that money is to come from Mom and Dad, since after all the student worked so hard in high school. Any though given to the fact that your parents had to work very hard through their own high school and college careers, possibly grad or professional school and then did real hard work throughout their careers, while raising a family, to have earned that money OP feels entitled to. Seriously, what amount of hard work in high school, which is really what is expected of everyone, has earned OP a couple hundred thousand dollars of the wealth and savings the parents toiled for? Reality check time, don’t you think?
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Very well said.
We see HS students posts with similar claims all the time. “I worked too hard (blah blah blah).”
All they really did was do what they were supposed to do with their time: go to school, do their homework, study for exams. Job well done, but really just “doing their job.”
As you noted, their parents have been “working hard” for a very long time, being successful during their education years and during their career years, and in the past 18+ years, also working hard raising a family.
Usually, the common denominator is that these students want bragging rights at school to say that they’re not going to be going where THEY are going (often their flagship or other local school).
I know few parents who will pay $250k+ for their child to have lunch table bragging rights.