<p>including room/board, after scholarships/aid?</p>
<p>My parents are paying 35k a year for me and I was wondering if that's too much.</p>
<p>How much are you guys paying? An approximate number would be fine. I'm really curious.</p>
<p>Sort of a tough question to answer, because many students don’t pay the advertised official Cost of Attendance. This could be due to scholarships, grants and loans (which of course do have to be paid back, but they reduce the current out-of-pocket cost). Also, housing/food costs can vary quite a bit depending on whether the student lives on campus, and what meal plan they choose. Costs which also need to be factored in are books/supplies and travel. </p>
<p>The Cost of Attendance at my D’s school will be about $44,000 next year; that’s tuition and room & board. I’m not comfortable sharing the details of her scholarship and grant aid, but I can tell you that without it, she wouldn’t be going there.</p>
<p>My total education for 4 years (1998-2002) was $40k.</p>
<p>Oh, the masters of science in mechanical engineering degree that I’m currently enrolled in will be $35k for the program, and the master of science in astro and aero from Stanford that I am considering enrolling in will be $60k for the whole program.</p>
<p>These numbers only include tuition, books, fees and not room & board.</p>
<p>About 22k/year</p>
<p>My parents aren’t paying anything. Horray for being hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt! :D</p>
<p>I kinda feel guilty that my parents are paying 140k+ for my college education</p>
<p>IDK, it’s a weird feeling. While I’m thankful that I won’t have any debt when I graduate since they have it all covered, I also realize it’s a huge chunk of their hard-earned money and feel bad about that.</p>
<p>I can only imagine those paying 50k+ a year</p>
<p>We have paid nearly $50,000 a year-no loans; no debt. Graduation is May 16, 2010. Graduate school will have to be on someone else’s dime!</p>
<p>We’ll be paying about $7,000 per year after Son’s scholarship kicks in.</p>
<p>Timely question, we’re trying to work that out right now. D’s two top choices – one we would be full pay at 53K, the other 33K when scholarship is factored in. Choice one has her a little more excited – higher prestige school, close to Boston, but also fairly large. Choice two is also a good school, not with the prestige factor of choice one though – has some good opportunities for her though – honors program, smaller, most likely better faculty interaction.
For a kid going directly onto grad school in the sciences, saving the money seems like a good idea to us. DD having no debt coming out of college would be great too!! But we are diligently working on our pro/con lists - we’ll see where it all falls out next month. </p>
<p>Sorry for the way long answer to a simple question, just thinking “out loud” so to speak.</p>
<p>When our kids were in privates k-12, we thought tuition would kill us. Well, now that we have two in college and one still a sophomore in HS, we do nothing but pay tuition it seems. And no, it hasn’t killed us, but it sure hasn’t made us stronger either. No debt, but it all totals out to about 90K a year. I figure if we continue to pay those numbers after graduations to ourselves, we might be able to afford to retire one day. Maybe. :)</p>
<p>wish we had the ability to do FP</p>
<p>DadII - I wish we had the ability to do FP without it stressing out every single aspect of our lives. It is chronic and prolonged stress.</p>
<p>I think that we’re paying about $22,000 per year. Son gets to keep his summer earnings which were about $7,000 last year. We’re planning on paying for grad school too. Our daughter is doing Community College next year so the net costs are probably going to be around $2,000 after tax credits.</p>
<p>Not there yet but given we are 90% sure kids will stay in Canada for their undergrad, it will be $4-7k a year for tuition and fees, and $5-12k for room and board, so the total cost range will be $9-19k a year. So the same or less than their private highschool currently.</p>
<p>Total for all 4 years would be around $13 thousand. We bought prepaid tuition 20 years ago.</p>
<p>^ Cool. How does it work? Is the $13k what you put into it 20 years ago, or the current value of the money you put into it 20 years ago?</p>
<p>$35k is not too much for Grad school, kind of low. It is way too much for UG, we would not advise our kids to go where we would pay $35K / year for UG.</p>
<p>Here in the state of Michigan there is the Michigan Education Trust and when our son was a baby we purchased 4 years of college tuition to any Michigan public college. It cost about 8 thousand dollars because colleges were much cheaper back then. We have had to pay a little for room and board that scholarships and grants haven’t covered. The price of the MET has gone way up since then.</p>
<p>^Did not it affect College Merit Schlarship package or any possible financial aid package?</p>