What is typical allowance from parents?

Colleges & Universities University of California - Los Angeles
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<p>When I lived in the dorms I got zero. My arrangement with my parents has been that I take out loans for my tuition, use my own money to pay for textbooks, and then my parents pay for my housing. Since my food expenses were tied up into my housing costs when I lived in the dorms, my parents figured (and I think rightfully so) that I should have to pay for any meals I ate out in Westwood or wherever. </p>

<p>This year I’m in an apartment, and my dad put $200 on my Bruincard when he helped me move in… but that’s for the entire year. So I’m basically still on my own to pay for groceries, although I do use the money on my Bruincard to pay for lunch on campus 2-3 times a week. But I’ve never received a monthly allowance just for spending money… and frankly I don’t really think parents should still be giving their kids an allowance like that once they’re in college.</p>

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<p>if you live in the dorms it might be a little too much…</p>

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<p>As a freshman, I wasn’t employed until the end of the year. Probably $100-150 a month. My parents paid for tuition and textbooks. They didn’t give me an allowance per se - I would just ask. </p>

<p>Once I got a job, I didn’t get allowance. I mean sure if I needed money, I would just have to ask. I started going out a lot more and worked a lot my second and third years of college to pay for personal expenses.</p>

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<p>I have several credit cards and I basically charge big ticket items and books and stuff on them…I don’t really have a limit…I get about $200-300 a month cash for misc spending purposes… I get no financial aid :(</p>

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<p>I hope your Bruin Card finds its way into my possession. One time I found someone’s card and i went on a shopping spree at the vending machines. $30 worth of snacks and drinks. It was a good day.</p>

<p>@qipao was your job exotic dancing?</p>

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<p>^bad karma.</p>

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<p>Yes, it was.</p>

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<p>that person probably deserved it. i’m just here to balance the equation.</p>

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<p>I use it to buy textbooks, though. I’ll probably be broke by spring quarter.</p>

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<p>Like crushonyou, I got $500/month when I was an undergrad</p>

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<p>The only thing that working through college will teach you is how to sound like you think you’re better than people who didn’t have a job.</p>

<p>The only thing that not fully supporting your child through college will teach you is how to sound like what you did give them might as well have been bending heaven and earth. </p>

<p>The only thing that will result from believing there’s a hard and fast rule about allowance in college is your complete obliviousness to your own child’s specific needs and circumstances.</p>