Unless the parents are paying 75% of the tuition and can afford it, the parents shouldn’t allow them to go there. It’s their responsibility to explain it to their kids who may not be mature enough to understand the outstanding student loan balance when they get out. It’s ridiculous to have more than $50,000 student loan balance when you graduate. If they can’t afford to have only a $50,000 loan balance they should be commuting to school.
Ultimately they should let an 18 year old make his or her own choices, but for a kid able to get into RU (today means SAT well north of 1300) they should be able to understand the basics of money.
My parents flat out told me what they could afford. Unfortunately I was not to explore the culture and beautiful campuses until I paid my own grad school fare.
It's also really sad today...I live in JC...and walking around here, and in Hoboken, it's still mostly millennials. We have a COL crisis in this country for sure, but part of it is these fuel on the fire decisions like paying for University of Tampa. They can't afford to move out of their parents' houses and that creates yet another cascading crisis.
