<p>Frankly, $$ do not come to my mind. Maybe because my D. actually “paid” for her UG by her hard work, getting Merit awards and going to state school. We will help with Med. School, but it is not the reason. Every parent wants their kid to be happy. We are deeply affected when it does not happen. I am not sure why it is not not so obvious to some 18+, about time that they start thinking in these terms, it is just a common sense. We are not that far from a monkey caring for the little ones. Why they do? It seems just a burden…they just do, it is natural for normal adult, it is part of their life and really appreciated part.</p>
<p>Some of us parents are paying our life savings up to a quarter of a million into your life improvement. Get real. The starup that takes large amount of investment from a VC has to answer to them. When I went to college and grad school, my parents didn’t pay a penny of tuition and they still got involved.</p>
<p>Haha, maybe that’s why my parents aren’t really involved at all in my college experience. Did everything from FAFSA, application, scholarship applications, and they’re not paying a penny out of their pocket, let alone driving 40 minutes to attend the orientation. Made it that much more stressful applying for scholarships.</p>
<p>@tigerdad14, 
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<p>Perhaps I should change my sn to gunner-dad?</p>
<p>Talking about money, “quarter of a million” is understatement in regard to many cases of creating an MD.</p>
<p>^^ Your right, costs can go up to a half a million in some cases.</p>
<p>Hey, some “creepy parents” may know the answer to this question:</p>
<p>I heard of several magic dates: Oct. 15, Nov.15 (specific to Texas only), Feb. 1 (also specific to Texas only), May 15, and June 15 (also Texas only.)</p>
<p>Is the following statement true (toward the end of application cycle)?</p>
<p>May 15 : AMCAS = June 15 : TMDSAS.</p>
<p>Off the topic, but I think it is funny that I think it may be good to share:</p>
<p>DS and one of his friends (who is an URM – BTW, DS somehow could get along very well with people of almost all ethnic groups after he had gone to college where there are more diversified student body. He did not have such opportunities in his suburban high school) visited one medical school on one of their interview trips. (happened to go on the same date.) They saw a picture of their students posted where the applicants can easily see. There are quite a few URMs (of the same ethnic group of his friend) in the picture. But somehow they know for sure there is not a single URM (of that particular group) in one of the class there recently (by accident, not by design). They joked with each other that they may pull together all of their URMs from all four classes and put them in this picture – to create an illusion that there are more URM students than there actually are. His friend also commented that, in the past couple of years, wherever he went for an event on campus, it is often the case somebody (esp. one of those who organized the event) would take a picture of him and his picture would more likely show up everywhere.</p>