She also claims Vanderbilt offered her a full scholarship but she just had to go to Duke after seeing how beautiful the campus was.
Just stupid.
It's her own damn fault, then, that she's in debt.
My daughter noticed a beautiful private college campus we drove past and asked what it was. I said it was a school, a college. She saw it, was drawn toward it, and asked if she could go there. I said I’d have to see how much it cost.
I pulled up the websites for that private school and a local state university with a good reputation. I totalled up the numbers and explained that 12-18 months at that college equaled four years at the public college. If she went to that college, she’d get no better of an education, but I’d blow through the money for all the kids to send her to THAT school. Which I could not in conscience do.
We ran through the numbers for living at home, living on campus, everything for both schools. To my relief, she came to the same conclusion - it costs too much to go to private.
Later I found out how few of her friends have ever had conversations like this. The kids are allowed to go on tours, fall in love with an atmosphere, and parents get hit by a star struck kid advocating for an experience without any regard for a price tag.
What a fool and go figure, this is where fools end up.