Out-of-state tuition, room, board, and fees for Wisconsin run more than $48,000 this year. Even with the money I’d saved in his 529 fund, there is no way I can afford to send him there, particularly on top of the cost of my elder son’s education.
Tell him to apply here:
One of my husband’s daughters graduated Hillsdale and she did so without debt and she also came out the same wonderful person who went in. That school is a blessing!
Maybe apply to a college you can afford? And what’s wrong with living at home when you attend college? I did. I commuted into Manhattan and back home every afternoon.
community college for two years. A lot of times, if you get through two years of CC (in the honors program) universities will line up to offer aid to finish up there.
Not the ideal solution but that’s what we’re faced with nowadays.
Whatever you do, don’t go into debt.
It’s a story that’s been told over and over. I started saving for my kids college education before they were born.
And frankly, I’m surprised Wisconsin is that cheap. We looked at a few schools for my son that were closer to $60,000 and I’m talking places like Quinnipiac and USC. Airfare and all that other stuff add up too.
I’m not saying school should be free ala Bernie. But something has to change. And I don’t know what that is.
Send him to Plumbing or Welder school.
Vote Bernie, of course, Duh!
Send him to welding/plumbing/electrical/contracting school at votech. He’ll make 48k in a year. Then he can pay for his own college.
Crazy people.
I wouldn’t let a child even apply for a state university other than our own state, in most cases, unless he coughed up the $200 or so application fee himself.
Get a job (or three like I did) and live off campus (it is a scam). Go to school in Jersey where you live.
A young engineer who works with me has debt north of $200,000.
That isn’t sustainable.
Funny thing is when I hear professors at these schools, they keep saying they need more money. I have family who teach at a university. They do not make major coin, but yet the tuition is horrendous.
Where is the money going?
Go to college elsewhere produce great grades and he may find a full ride at school of his choice
Community college for two years.
It would be cheaper for him to go to college in Germany. He can’t be that desirable as a student if they won’t at least waive the out-of-state.
He might want to explore his options at Missouri - he’d have a particularly strong bargaining position with them this summer.
It’s out of control. That said, push the school for assistance, and don’t be shy about it.
USCG,USAF,USN,USA,USMC.
In that order
Maybe he should not go. His tuition costs will break him or you or both of you.
The US Army will cover him. All he has to do is serve a couple years.
Do what I did. I paid out of state tuition to KU. Before my first class, I enlisted in the KS ARNG. Now I have an 8 year contract AND citizenship in KS....took a whole year arguing with KU for IN STATE tuition and they wouldn’t give it to me because my parents lived in NW Arkansas. It took a lawyer and 5k to get a check from KU for the balance.....As soon as I finished college, I went active duty...and changed residency. Friggin college administrators really try to shaft out of staters.
This article is just dripping with yuppie parents angst about the cost of college, how to pay, why didn’t he get a generous financial aid offer from Wisconsin, etc.
Welcome to the real world, parents and child. This is a good introduction to the life dilemmas her son will confront in life. You can’t have everything your little heart desires. Choices have to be made. Sacrifices have to be made to achieve certain goals. Whether this mom knows it or not, her son is learning some valuable life lessons in this experience.
But why did she have to throw in a gratuitous comment about girls in tight dresses at Rutgers, and OMG will her son get hooked up with one of them???? Holy Geez..........