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from a non-parental view...
i'm 21, starting my final year of undergraduate school, applying to grad school, and coming to the realization that i will never be able to provide for a future child's education, because i will forever be paying off my own student loans.
my entire high school is like this. either the student is lucky to get a full ride, or spends FOREVER paying student loans. I guess the saddest thing is that a few of my friends who were lucky enough to get full rides (most of them to more than one school) have since dropped out of school, while i'm still trudging along, praying that i can get through this eventually.
I never expected that my parents would pay for my college, and while i can't understand why a kid with a strong extra-curricular (i was a band geek forever) and good overall grades (i think i had a 3.7 on a 4.0 scale) would get passed for someone that had already accepted to another college.
i dunno - does any of that make sense - prolly not!
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