Convincing my dad?

annikasorrensen
Mon, 11 Jun 2012 20:41:18 +0000

I suggest you simply read all the posts on this sub-forum for a full year and watch the cycle that happens. You will read about many students like yourself who have financial limits for a variety of reasons.

You will come to see that 30K a year is extremely generous and beyond what what people have as a starting point. You will also be able to learn from some of the threads how devastating it has been for students to take out more than approximately the subsidized federal loan amounts (in the 20K - 30K range TOTAL in loans for all four years).

30K X 4 = 120K. Your dad obviously feel education IS important. But he feels a really nice Toyota or Honda will get you as far in life as a Ferrari. It may be really really difficult to see this from his perspective, but he is in 98% of cases correct. It may also be really really difficult to also see this from his perspective, but he likely has many financial obligations and goals and retirement needs and retirement wishes that require fiscal responsibility–and that means balancing what he offers you in freebie money for college (a Honda instead of the Ferrari). Life is like that.

Best of luck. Work hard researching for colleges that offer nice merit scholarships that cover all of tuition.