Single Choice EA Surges--But with the Middle Class Caught in the Middle (Again)

[born2dance94]

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Just, wow . . . born2dance94
Your parents are just barely scrimping by at 200K? Maybe you’d better go occupy Wall Street or Walnut Creek or Atherton or wherever it is that you don’t think you have the resources to live comfortably. Your parents may be having trouble paying for both your dance lessons and your car payment, but some out there are more focused on paying the power bill and their application fees. Just try be grateful for what your parents have given you so far and maybe a bit more appreciative of the advantages that they’ve been able to provide for you. There are worse problems to have than making too much money for need based FA.

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<p>@saintfan Uh, did you even read my post?

And don’t think this is a personal thing. I do happen to live in an area with almost 50% of salary going to taxes and next year both my sis and I will be in college, but I don’t know how much my parents make. They aren’t willing to sharing it with me. But I do know they make enough that we wouldn’t get any FA. Luckily they might be considered “cheap” to some of my friends, but their scrimping and saving allowed them to save up money for my sis, my lil bro, and I to go to college. But I can tell you if they hadn’t been as cheap as they are, living in my area with more than 1 kid going to college would be very difficult to accomplish and we’d all probably need to go to a state school

I don’t need any FA because yeah my parents DID “scrimp and save.” Like I said, I don’t know how much they make. But in my area, say they made $200k, after taxes they’d get about $110,000. And with three kids, one in college and one about to be, and fairly serious medical problems that cost a shizzload of money for more than one of our 5-person family, you DO need to “scrimp and save” to be able to set aside $200,000 PER CHILD to go to college. And there’s NO car payments of mine for them to pay, because although literally 95% of my friends got cars this year (some got Mercedes weeks before they even took the road test) I share my parent’s old car with my older sister so that YET AGAIN, my parents could save up more than $600,000 to send all of us to college without financial difficulty. Unless you’ve lived in an area with super high taxes (where I am is rated in like the top 5) and made $200,000 a year with multiple kids, don’t pretend to know that someone like that doesn’t need to scrimp and save. </p>

<p>YET AGAIN FOR THOSE WHO DON’T READ, I said that paying for college will not be an issue for my family so I’m not personally invested in the $200k issue except from a fair distance when looking at situations with my friends. But I can guarantee you that anyone who tries to save up $600k will definitely need to “scrimp and save” because they’d need to make around 1 million dollars before taxes where I live to save that, not to mention all the expenses for everyday life. So I’ll take my old used and shared car and my fake Uggs and non-designer clothing, because I DON’T have to worry about my parents paying for my college education. But if my parents DID drop money on every whim we had, I can guarantee they wouldn’t have been able to set aside $600k.</p>

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