<p>Re: “They go as far as asking me to not do work study.”
We asked DS to not do work study as well. Compared to the COA at a private college, the money earned by doing work study would be a very small fraction of the COA. It does not make much difference whether he did work study or not.</p>
<p>We also partially paid for his grad school (not a MS/PhD program.) It costs more than his UG does and we are poorer now than when he was an UG. (That is the reason why he still does not have a car today.) We can afford to pay about one third of COA for him now and his student loan debts start to pile up.</p>
<p>We believe that: “once you have a job and get married, you are out.” He has been working hard on both now :)</p>