<p>Or every years? Or not at all?</p>
<p>My mom plan to pay for 2 years of college and then put whatever I have left on me (Loans and the like). I was wondering if any fellow college-goers is doing sort of the same thing.</p>
<p>My parents are going to help me pay, but only the first few ten thousand dollars, then I need to cover it with either a part-time job or scholarships, loans, or grants.</p>
<p>So I’m a junior, not a senior, but I am responding anyway…</p>
<p>My family will not be contributing any money towards tuition or room/board, the only things they will be paying is probably transportation and books. We simply don’t have the financial means. It is expected of me that I will either go somewhere with a full ride or get student loans.</p>
<p>My mom has paid for my tuition and room/board for college. I feel she’s done more than her fair share. I know she’ll try to help pay for books if she can, but I don’t feel like she has to. I’ll find a way to pay for those. </p>
<p>I know I’ll be getting Bright Futures so that’s a chunk of change. I’m hoping to get $1000 scholarships here and there and maybe that will cover my entire college experience…? Meh…I’ll find a way.</p>
<p>College Expenses
Tuition (Fees) - FPP
Room and Board - FPP
Meal Plan - undecided
Transportation - I have a car which my mom is paying for.
Cellphone/Computer - Mom
Books - undecided</p>
<p>My parents financially can’t contribute anything really except maybe a textbook or two and airfare (if needed). This is why I need good financial aid packages and why I’m applying to a lot of scholarship programs. Hopefully I can get a Gates Millennium scholarship.</p>
<p>I think my aprenst will just pay some of the board/living costs. They’ve made it very clear they will not pay for my tuition at all, particularly as I will be at a private school for the next 2 years.</p>
<p>My parents don’t have the money to pay for anything…crossing fingers for scholarships and financial aid</p>
<p>I’m a junior. I’ll be paying off loans until I die. So far my parents have been very cryptic about all of it. They live under the delusion that every college will give a full ride scholarship to anyone with A’s.</p>
<p>My mom says we’ll figure it out…We’re going to see about merit scholarships and financial aid then see where we can go from there…My grandpa and grandaddy will help if we need it…I know my grandpa gave large graduation gifts to my cousins so I’m guessing that’ll pay for school supplies…It’s a matter of the tuition, room, and board really…</p>
<p>I’ll most likely be receiving a close to full need-based scholarship, which is wonderful. I’m really grateful, especially because my mom doesn’t have the financial means to help pay for tuition. Anything that’s not covered I’ll try to fill by scholarships and work study. </p>
<p>My mom will most likely pay for transportation and a cell phone.</p>
<p>Between what my parents can give me and what I have, it’ll he about 6/7 a year that they five me. The rest will be made up by me. And I will probably be paying loans forever.</p>
<p>My parents have told me that they can afford to contribute about 6k per year. I need to get scholarships or loans for the rest. I’m hoping for good scholarships! Our EFC is higher than we can afford…</p>
<p>Retired parents that fully pay it with no loans.</p>
<p>The benefits of staying home and not going to the “prestigious college” you know.
~One of the many things for it: a student that went to both UC Berkeley and CSU Sacramento claims that it’s about the same…</p>
<p>My parents are divorced. My mom doesn’t even have a retirement fund because she lost a lot of money in the divorce, while my dad definitely wouldn’t pay anything (last time I checked, he’d want me to go to the state flagship which I think is ridiculous). We’re struggling financially basically all the time, so we have no money to pay for college. I’m really hoping for some scholarships, financial aid, and not too much in loans.</p>
<p>In a sense. I pretty much need a scholarship to go to most of my schools, so my “paying” for the school is earning the scholarship.
Although if the school just gives good need-based then they’ll pay for it too.</p>
<p>Not a senior but i have one year of GI Bill and from family around3/4 of a yar paid for</p>
<p>My family can’t really afford to pay much of anything for college, so I’m pretty much on my own. Almost all the schools I’m applying to are very generous with either need-based or merit aid, or both, and as a last resort I’m applying for a Bright Futures scholarship to FSU. With that and a small college fund from my grandparents, I should be okay.</p>
<p>Gonna be expensive no doubt. But hopefully my school will give generous financial aid, considering I have a brother in college and my family has other immediate financial obligations to attend to, I just hope everything works out.</p>
<p>Parents will be paying none of my college costs. </p>
<p>I’m hopefully going to get a scholarship from my top school worth 60% of my tuition. From there, it’s federal need-based scholarships, grants, and loans, plus anything I can get from private sources. </p>
<p>Hopefully I’ll get a couple LGBTQ scholarships.</p>
<p>It’s important to know what your parent are willing and able to pay, and to put your school list together with that in mind. Make sure you have at least one, better more, schools that will definitely take you and that you will be able to afford. Don’t get caught up in the high cost game without back up.</p>