Considering "Fairness" When Paying Sibling College Costs

2017girl
Mon, 16 May 2016 04:06:03 +0000

My parents gave my brother and I the exact same amount of money to spend on our educations as we see fit. My brother chose expensive private, I chose affordable public. I will have enough left over for grad school. My brother spent nearly everything on undergrad. I would say that is about at fair as it gets. My uncle kept a running tally of college cost for each of his kids and wrote two of them checks to cover the difference when the third had graduated. That seemed pretty fair as well.

Several will point out that rising education prices make this an unfair system. But its certainly more fair than paying significantly more for one child over another.