Wake made the list of school leaving parents of graduates with the most debt. https://www.wsj.com/articles/which-...llege-loan-debt-11606936947?mod=hp_lead_pos12. $55,869 is “Parent Plus” debt.
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my son wants to go to Colorado or Denver University. He was also accepted at UNCG and UNCC. Sorry dude - i'm not paying an extra $30k/year for you to get to be in the mountains. It's not like we're comparing Harvard and UNCG here.
my son wants to go to Colorado or Denver University. He was also accepted at UNCG and UNCC. Sorry dude - i'm not paying an extra $30k/year for you to get to be in the mountains. It's not like we're comparing Harvard and UNCG here.
my son wants to go to Colorado or Denver University. He was also accepted at UNCG and UNCC. Sorry dude - i'm not paying an extra $30k/year for you to get to be in the mountains. It's not like we're comparing Harvard and UNCG here.
Give your kid the equivalent in first year tuition for in-state here (UNCG or UNCC) and tell him to move to Denver or Boulder, get a part time job and go to the local CC fora year, he can use the difference to help pay for living expenses. He can establish residency, save money on tuition, and actually decide if he wants to live in Colorado. Also he'll have to do well in community college to keep his acceptance, so that will incentivize him not to smoke weed 24/7 for the next year (Colorado, I see you kid) and fail out of school and flush your $40-50K down the toilet.
CU Denver?
Give your kid the equivalent in first year tuition for in-state here (UNCG or UNCC) and tell him to move to Denver or Boulder, get a part time job and go to the local CC fora year, he can use the difference to help pay for living expenses. He can establish residency, save money on tuition, and actually decide if he wants to live in Colorado. Also he'll have to do well in community college to keep his acceptance, so that will incentivize him not to smoke weed 24/7 for the next year (Colorado, I see you kid) and fail out of school and flush your $40-50K down the toilet.
this might be the smartest thing Brasky has ever posted. I wish someone forced 18-year old stugotz to work hard.
Research in state tuition requirements VERY carefully. Many states have closed the various loopholes such as the one Brasky describes. They often have a requirement that the money used to pay tuition come from in state source. This prevents kids from "establishing" residency for a year when it is their parents (who live elsewhere) paying the tuition.
My son went to KU, and we looked at this from all angles. We even bought a house there (as an investment). Still couldn't qualify.
In my experience, qualifying your kid for in-state tuition in a state where you don't live almost always involves being comfortable with committing some level of fraud.
I've been told that Georgia will offer "in state tuition" to students from contiguous states. Not sure if that is true or not. My wife told me that regarding our high school age son, but I didn't care enough at the time to look it up.
Re the Colorado schools, I'd tell my son that college is to prepare you for your future, not be a prolonged vacation. If you have the means to finance a summer for him there, then do it. But unless he develops an interest in mining, minerals, or geology, I'd steer him toward a NC public school for his education.