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…it is a rarity for parents to provide 50% of support to a graduate student.</p>
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<p>Exactly…once you add up the cost of tuition, housing, food, personal expenses, transportation (car, whatever), very few parents are contributing 50%+ to a student who still lives in the home during non-academic times. A grad student’s costs can easily be $60k per year plus…few parents are providing 51% of those costs. </p>
<p>And…most grad students are probably living in full-time 12 month apts and are only brief visitors in their parents’ homes. </p>