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September 2011 Moms
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GTKY: education
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Did you go to college or post high school schooling?
What kind of schooling or degree?
Did you pay or your parents?
Do you plan to pay for your kids?
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Re: GTKY: education
ETA: we are going to make sure K gets a sports scholarship :
My dad has a 529 for both kids. So he will be contributing as well.
Did you go to college or post high school schooling? Yes
What kind of schooling or degree? 2 years at the local community college, then 2 years at a state university - Bachelors of Science degree
Did you pay or your parents? My parents paid OOP completely while I was at community college, and then paid half of the state university.
Do you plan to pay for your kids? I won't pay 100%, but I would like to pay at least half. DH's family couldn't/didn't pay for anything, it was complete student loans, and we are drowning in them. We'll be paying for J and DH at the same time at this rate
I'll never do that to him.
Did you go to college or post high school schooling? College
What kind of schooling or degree? I have a BA and an MBA.
Did you pay or your parents? Parents paid for college, I paid for graduate school.
Do you plan to pay for your kids? Yes, to a point. If she decides to go to a super expensive school, then we probably won't pay 100%. I also want to give her incentives to getting scholarships, like offering to help pay for grad school or a house if she gets a lot.
Did you go to college or post high school schooling? College
What kind of schooling or degree? I have a BA in Communications, completed it in 3 years.
Did you pay or your parents? Both. My parents didn't pay a whole lot, but did what they could. I went to a private school and have a big fat student loan. In retrospect, I wish I had gone to a state school. My parents also helped with gas money, food, etc. during college when I needed it.
Do you plan to pay for your kids? We haven't really discussed. Both DH and I paid for the majority of our own schooling and I think we will do the same with our children. Of course, if we score jobs with amazing pay or win the lottery and are able to contribute more, we definitely will.
BS in business admin.
Both. Parents paid most and I have some loans.
Hes getting a scholarship! Lol we will help but not pay all.
What kind of schooling or degree? I am currently working on my BA in Early Childhood Education and Development
Did you pay or your parents? Neither, I have scholarships and grants that pay for it
Do you plan to pay for your kids? We haven't started anything yet, but we are going to. I'm having a really hard time committing to a plan...
Yes. BA in Political Science and Masters in Public Administration
My parents and I (and grandparents) paid for undergrad. I took out loans and had a research job to cover grad school.
I hope we can help N with undergrad and anything beyond that would be up to her. I don't want her or us to end up with huge loans so we'll do the best we can. Depending on how retirement goes for her grandparents I suspect they might help but I won't ask.
Did you go to college or post high school schooling? Yup, lots of it!
What kind of schooling or degree? I have a BS in Marine Biology, a masters in Marine Affairs, and a law degree.
Did you pay or your parents? Mom and Dad paid for most of undergrad (I had small loans for my first (very expensive private) college, and when I transferred, it was to a state university where my dad worked, so I got a tuition waiver and mom and dad paid for books and my rent). I paid for all of the graduate stuff myself with loans/scholarships/grants.
Do you plan to pay for your kids? I want to be able to give my kids the same deal my parents gave me - I'll pay for undergrad to the greatest extent that I can, and she's on her own for graduate work. Though with colleges getting more and more expensive every year, I only hope that I'm able to do that!
Did you go to college or post high school schooling? Yes
What kind of schooling or degree? BA in Criminal Justice and some classes for a master's degree that I didn't finish.
Did you pay or your parents? I paid most. They took out some loans for the first year, but after that all loans were taken out in my name.
Do you plan to pay for your kids? We've started a college savings account for B, but I doubt we will pay for everything.
Late to the party....
Yes
I have a BBA and an MBA
I had a scholarship that covered most of my bachelor's, my parents paid the difference. I paid for my masters.
I sure hope to. She has savings started already. Of course I will still hope that she gets a a scholarship too!
(I'd still give her the money saved for her of course, but how nice would it be to have someone else pay for college and be able to use that savings for a down payment on a house or something!)
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I have a Bachelor's and Master's degree in nursing.
I had scholarships and my parents paid what that didn't cover.
I don't think we will be able to afford to pay for our kids college. We started a college fund for A so we will have that but I am not sure how much we will be able to help.
Did you go to college or post high school schooling? Yes
What kind of schooling or degree? BA and MEd
Did you pay or your parents? My parents paid for my undergrad, I paid for my graduate.
Do you plan to pay for your kids? Yes. But they will not know that we have the money for them until, well, until the day they leave for school. We will not pay for a kid with no motivation.
I will have a BA in Psychology with minors in Sociology and History.
Nope. They did not pay at all.
I want to pay for as much as I can. I have so much student loan debt, I don't want my kids to have that as well.
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