Did your parents save money for you to go to college?

Did your parents save up money that you could use to go to college that they saved from when you were young? I want to see how common this is.

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Yes 42
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  • ScooterNyne

    I think my parents tried for awhile then just gave up. As soon as I got my first job I had to pay for everything. Some days I eat good somedays I don't lol. And i'm still saving for a car so I can actually get dafuq out and go to college next year. It's a really fucking hard time but Ima feel like a bad ass when I actually pay for my first car. Ima go up to all the kids and be like
    "Pfft, what, did you parents GIVE you that car or something? haha FAGGOT >:I"

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  • Musickid203

    Yup! And im glad that they did!

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  • braintrip

    no, thats why i cant go to college

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  • baronroderick

    I live in Brazil and here the best colleges are public, you need to apply for the admissional test (which, thanks to the poor quality of our public schools, usually gets only people who attended private schools approved) and them you can graduate for free.
    The private colleges (those which you must pay) are here of two kinds: low quality colleges where lower middle class people who egress from public schools study, usually with a scholarship of the government, which can be a 100% scholarship; and top quality colleges where some members of the affluent elite study (the other members are in the public universities). A shitty country with a shitty educational policy, you see.
    So here there isn't this culture of saving money for college, either you're a really intelligent guy who can make your way to the public university despite the deficiencies of the public school, or you're a more privileged upper middle-class/rich guy which will course law, medicine, publicity or engineering in the University of Sao Paulo or FAAP, Mackenzie, PUC etc.

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  • dinz

    Not really - University education is highly subsidised though it was still expensive for me.

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  • anti-hero

    What parents?

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  • Cuntsiclestick

    Nope. They couldn't afford it.

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  • q25t

    A little bit. I've always tried to expect nothing and plan on doing everything myself.

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  • GuessWho

    No. I don't think there was some sort of advance saving.
    They just pay it as it comes, like any other expense.

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  • kingofcarrotflowers

    No mine didn't, in fact I had to stop going to college as I couldn't afford another year, when we moved into our new house we were just so desperate to move in and get away that we didn't have anyone look at the house. Safe to say things went wrong and it cost us a lot

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  • NeuroNeptunian

    No. My Mom stopped paying my expenses when I moved out at 18. I go in the Pell Grant and if I can get into the Reserve, I'll get TA.

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    • That is not what I meant. This is a type of thing that parents build up from the time you are babies so that they can give it to you when you start college. So that would be BEFORE 18 not after.

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      • NeuroNeptunian

        HOLY SHIT, I was a baby at some point before I turned 18!? =.= Asshole.

        I could have sworn I had typed "No." before I typed the next two sentences.

        I'll say it again - "NO".
        I'll say it in Spanish - "NO".
        One more time.
        NOOOO!

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      • She still did answer your question. If someone's parents paid for your college, odds are they saved for it before you were 18.

        Mine did by the way...worst investment of their lives.

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  • squeallikeasacofpigs

    My parents didn't really need to "save" as such for high education, they just sort of had the money. But HE in my country is heavily state subsidized so it's far cheaper than the US.

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  • RoyRogers

    Hello no but you can bet they are sending their grandkids.

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  • thatchickyouhate

    nope. paid my own way and I have two degrees. never qualified for free money (grants) either.

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  • DamnSonn

    My family is poor as FUCK!!!!- the answers no

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  • Baby.Blues

    I was sort of lucky but not really. When my grandmother died she left me some money specifically for college tuition. Then when my grandfather died he left me his car to get back and forth to school. I was lucky to have the funds but not lucky in the way that i recieved it.

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  • CheyChey

    My mum pays my uni fees with money from her bank account I guess, there was never some sort of long term saving, I guess it was assumed that I would go to uni so the money has just been sitting there in the bank.

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