I agree money never hurts!
“People like to think students do not talk about what their parents do, but they do. I know what most of my kid’s friends parents do. Maybe I am nosier than PG…My girls like to gossip with me, especially D1. I probably know more about D1’s boss than most of his friends.”
I’m sitting here with my D. She knew what her freshman roommate’s parents did for a living, but not the parents of her current set of friends. They are all sort of generic upper middle class!