[Protagoras]

Fair enough - but good vendors usually like to make things comfortable for clients who are spending large amounts of money.

I agree.

Which makes me think of another question. Who actually is spending the money? The "clients" in the class, or the parents who are actually paying the bills? Getting their reaction might be more pertinient.

[wideawake]

Hard to say. My wife paid for her law degree through personal loans, and I would guess that most of her classmates did as well. There were certainly some whose parents wrote a single check as well, though.

[Cyclopean Squid]

My folks helped me get through college (key word, helped), but I'm responsible for the law school, in the form of loans (federal and private), grants, and somehow even a scholarship (don't ask me how). That's not to say they don't send some $ now and again, but it is I who am looking into the vast gulf of financial debt.