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85 Hacks to Help Your Freelance Writing Career : Freelance Writing Jobs — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:51:48 +0000

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By: NancyP

NancyP — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:50:05 +0000

College costs a bomb, student loans are less available and parents don’t owe kids a free ride through college. My parents sat me down and told me what they could afford to contribute and suggested I think long and hard before going into mega-debt or signing up for an ROTC scholarship (my grades were good). I took their advice, went to UCLA and got a great education and a marketable degree at a bargain price. Ironically, if I’d gone to a high-cost private college in Calif., it would not have paid off the way my nationally-recognizable UCLA degree has. Everyone’s heard of UCLA. It helped.

It is OK to make a tough situation work for you. It’s a good lesson to learn early on, actually…life isn’t perfect, and we have to make the best of things.

By: Amy

Amy — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 17:18:54 +0000

I know I’m super late to this party, but this is really a great post Deb. I am SO negative. I usually don’t even bother reading stuff like this, because I’m that negative. LOL But I figured… well, it’s Deb…

Totally off topic, but:

@Phil – I laughed so hard that coffee came out of my nose when I read the disc jokey thing. I know I don’t know you THAT well, but that was just too funny to me. I used to want to be a lawyer, if that’s any consolation. (You can laugh right back.) Then I went to work for lawyers, because I couldn’t afford school yet, and I decided against it. Big money saved.

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By: Phil

Phil — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:13:00 +0000

Ann G.,

Best of luck with college financing, even though it’s a few years off. My oldest is a HS junior, so we’re looking at it right now, and she didn’t understand (despite our efforts) the importance of good grades until the third quarter of this year.

By: Ann G.

Ann G. — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 23:28:22 +0000

@Phil – Harvard’s plan sounds like the one Stanford just established. We’re definitely going to look into that for our son. To date, he’s only had A’s and now in 8th grade is taking some high school courses because the school couldn’t keep up with him. He’s enrolled in all Advanced courses for his first year of high school and if he can keep his grades up, I think he’ll be okay for a college scholarship. Our daughter’s a different story though – she still does well but all Bs won’t be as impressive to a college.

By: Phil

Phil — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 15:41:49 +0000

Ann G.,

If you children have the grades (mine don’t), look at Harvard. The university’s endowment fund has done so well, that Harvard is providing nearly a free ride for children of parents below certain income levels (I think the figure is $60,000 annually) who are accepted.

It’s not just marketing flack, either. Talked to someone recently who said they were able to get a son through Harvard for less than $10,000 for four years.

Another possibility may be to ensure they qualify as beinbg independent from you and have them borrow the money themselves. Granted, college was a lot less expensive when I went, but I repaid all loans, including the money I borrowed from my parents. When I repaid my parents five years after I graduated (meaning I ate a lot of tuna and tomato soup), it paid for my youngest brother’s first year of college.