[padre35]

“We have two young daughters 8/11 and are looking to the future.
The cost of a four year college is not (in our opinion) worth the huge amounts they are asking. We have come to the conclusion that two years at a CC is the first step and then chose the college with the curriculum needed for the chosen degree. You can save $60 or $70 by doing this. Amen.”

Indeed, that is a very wise option your 2 daughters have taken but right now there is a social stigma about CC that a top flight marketer couldn’t have created but at the end of the day 70 grand verses foolish pride and the 70k will win everytime and relieve your children will not have to deal with crushing debt for years to come.

I watched an MTV show about parents who were paying for their young adults to go to college and there was a man who just worked for a living who suggested to his daughter that she should go to CC first to save the family money and the little spendthrift virtually cried along with “I AM NOT GOING TO...” screaming.

Spoiled brat IMO.

[gakrak]

That’s a shame. I hope that we are doing right and raising value oriented girls. As Christians we need to instill the values of the Bible and hope it stays with them their entire lives. Amen.

[SuziQ]

When our oldest was going into the 9th grade, we told him, along with the three younger kids, that we were not going to pay for college. We told them we'd be happy to help them out while they were there, with incidental expenses, etc, but that they'd have to work on getting scholarships or take out loans, which we'd co-sign, to go to college.

We weren't about to spend our retirement just so they could get a college degree. We planned to put them through 12 years of Catholic school; the rest was up to them.

The oldest did get a full scholarship to a State school, where he ended up staying for five years, because he changed majors so he could get ready for Law School. He did loans for his three years of Law School, and is now working as an attorney in Boston. #2 son didn't get a scholarship, but we got Financial Aid because #1 was in school at the same time. The FAFSA form didn't ask if the other kids in college had scholarships. ;o) He went to a private university, though, so he had some hefty loans. He wanted to go to Grad school, and was feeling down that he'd have to get even more loans, but SirKit told him to go somewhere where THEY'D pay for grad school. He's now at UT Austin in his 4th year of a 6 year PhD program.

#3, our only daughter, was homeschooled through high school, and she ended up getting a 3/4 scholarship for a small Catholic university. She's going into her Sophomore year. Our youngest son is going into his Senior year, and he's already thinking about reasonably priced colleges to attend.