[PuppyTailWags]

If you're a parent, you probably are long enough out of college that you don't know what most new juniors are getting out of fresh from college. There's very few to no ways to pay your way through university with no debt, these days. Cheap in-state tuition & fees is over 5,000 per semester, not including books, equipment, travel, housing, food, healthcare...

When I was still in college, most kids were graduating with debt. Tuition and fees have only gone up since I left. Lots of people I knew who dropped out to try and save for college ended up in dead-end despair jobs.

[YZF]

Well, for one thing not everyone is in the USA. I was not. My older daughter graduated from university. So I do know. But also not in the USA.

Does nobody in the US live with their parents while going to university?

It's not uncommon where I live for parents to save to pay for their children's education. Believe it or not, the government even gives you money if you do that.

EDIT: That said, the US has plenty of good paying software jobs. You can pay back your loans even if you don't work for Google. I'm sure this isn't easy for everyone (especially these days).

[Jensson]

> Does nobody in the US live with their parents while going to university?

The tuition fees are probably a bigger expense than your living expenses if you go to college in USA.

[sgerenser]

Here in North Carolina, the flagship state universities are still only about $10k/year or less for tuition. If the student lives at home with their parents, it really wouldn’t be difficult to pay most of their way through school. College is expensive in general but it doesn’t have to be as bad as a lot of people make it out to be.

[PuppyTailWags]

> If the student lives at home with their parents, it really wouldn’t be difficult to pay most of their way through school.

Please tell me how a full-time student can fairly easily earn 10 grand a year (plus books, clothing, phone bill, entertainment, laptop, etc)?