<p>great article.
I’m starting to rethink about my parents’ loan for my college.
They are normal working class Chinese parents and are willing to sold their real estate and all their lifetime savings to send me to a American prestigious school. This year, I was only admitted by Fordham U, and was waitlisted by Emory U and Grinnell C. So I’ll take a GAP year.
This post just wake me up about the post-graduate things. My parents will live extremely thrift and can’t enjoy their life because of my nearly luxury American college education and I’ll have no freedom to pursue my dream to be a entrepreneur after graduation because I guess if so I can’t afford the risk, or my family can’t afford the risk. Then I’ll have limited choices but to work in some fast-money industry say banking…oh, what a nightmare. And that I’ll work for so many years to pay my debt and take care of my parents to fulfill my responsibility for them.
And never have time to realize my dream, then what’s the meaning of college education?
I guess I will not attend a great college w/o FA or maybe I should find a job and do some business to make money now.
Yeah! So, thank you for the post~! A great warning for kids who are haunted by the heavy college tuition.</p>