<p>LOL, ellemenope! You sound plenty generous to your dau.</p>
<p>True story: I know of one family whose s. went to France for a semester abroad. They whined about the cost of their s. going abroad, then decided that the rest of their immediate family should travel over in December to spend the holiday with him. Of course they claimed they couldn’t afford to pay their way, but it wasn’t fair that they couldn’t spend the holiday with their son, so came up with the brilliant idea that extended family should all travel over together— and the extended family should pick up the tab. Um… no.</p>
<p>Not sure what the real question is in the OP-- if the school has offered work-study as a way to defray the COA (as part of their FA package) and the student, for whatever reason, can’t, or chooses not to do the “work” part, then the student is responsible to cover the cost of the money that would have been acquired by the work study. The school should not be expected to write off that amount simply because the student chooses to avail themselves of the opportunity to study abroad. It is not an entitlement, just as, in the example above, if the family chooses to travel abroad to visit them for vacation instead of going to Hawaii or wherever, that is a luxury they should be fortunate to afford-- not an entitlement to be paid by someone else.</p>