I will be funding my grandson’s college at UTA or UNT next year. Anyone recently paid for 15 hours and books. Or where to find out. Thanks

All I know is that it's totally out of control.

When I was at UT in the 60s, tuition in all state schools in Texas was $50/semester. Not per hour. You could carry as many as 21 hours for a total of $50. Tuition, fees and books would cost me about $300 (books were the big expense.) Room and board was the biggest expense of all.

You ain't lying... If it was any other industry the 0l' Joe party would be calling for congressional hearing for price gouging... Dan

that was 65 years ago, really? come on man!

Ask Butch…

I would research hard before you send him off. I know a number of people who thought they were doing the right thing for their children only for them to come out unrecognizable, hateful towards this Country and conservative values. Poor attitude, big expense, huge debt, no ROI on the job market, depressed, lazy, broke, living off their parents, etc.

On the other hand I know just as many who came out with something of value.

Yes it was 65 years ago. What's your point? Do you think the high tuition rates are fees are about where they should be?

Get ready for $5-7000 per semester. I know, i've got one on the Grandpa scholarship at UNT currently. Unreal.

It’s double that isn’t it?

State and Federal governments used to pick up the lions share of colleges expenses by funding colleges directly.

Once they stepped away it fell on the students and their parents.

Thank goodness Riley is going to Cisco on Rodeo Scholarship. In addition to that she has also received through FFA, THSRA and Community Scholarships about 50-60k. As well as what we as parents have saved. Hopefully we get almost all if not all of her tuition paid.

As it should

I was at UTA starting in 1971. Tuition and fees for 15 hours my first semester was $220.
Those were the days when the UT system had bunches of oil money coming in to fund education.
The UT system was one of the least expensive schools in the nation.


When my daughter went to UTA her tuition went from $3k a semester to around $3.5k a semester when she graduated. 2006-2010.

My best advice to you is to establish a relationship with the schools financial aid/ scholarships office. You need to make sure your grandchild has applied for every need based program they can as well as merit based program. Also pay the school directly. Not your grandchild. I have seen many a parent and grandparent here at Texas State find out after four years their young one never even attended school beyond their first semester and lived it up on their money the rest of the time.

Just give him a Credit Card , my daughter went UNT , got a degree . Them went SMU , Now she a Lawyer in Denton , she is my step daughter , but i call her my daughter , i have been around her, since she was 5

A semester will run you $20k

We are about to do 2 years free
At U of Alabama
Academic scholarship

Is that the answer you wanted

Room board and tuition at tech was costing me around 30k a year for daughter. After 3 major changes and 5 years of dumb stuff she got cut off. Now she is working at Starbucks...... nice thing is that Starbucks is now paying her tuition as they do have a nice little program if you work full time for a year. She burned me pretty good so we are gonna do the next one a little different. He is gonna go get a job and a loan. Bring me good grades at the end of semester directed at a worthy degree and I am gonna pay loan off for that semester. Bring me junk and that goes into his loan pile and he can try again the next semester.

Hard [censored], glad you ain't my daddy lol. that seems like a pretty fair deal for junior.

Have your grandson fill out the FAFSA. He will need help with certain portions but this will 'qualify' him for any grants and some scholarships. Any other scholarships he may qualify for, earn, or be awarded will also roll up under this and be aggregated via the schools online 'business office'.

Most high school counselors are willing to help if asked but otherwise they are not going out of their way. Millions of dollars in scholarships go unawarded each year because kids did not apply or know about them.

My youngest of 4 graduated in December but my wife is in her last semester of a grad program. Even as a grad student she was awarded several state and departmental grants and scholarships. Still had to pay out the a$$ but every little bit helps.

I plan to do something similar to this with my kids. I'm debating between letting them take loans out for everything so they can get a real sense for the magnitude, then paying them off upon graduation. Or...the grades for pay deal. A real key is a worthy degree. My dad used to say, "Look in the newspaper. If you don't see job wanted ads for what you want to do, it's not the right major." Obviously today the job postings are online, but it's the same story.

Price of tuition is out of control. Wife's working on her Doctorates degree online. 8 week classes at $2400 a pop. She's been doubling up on a few terms so $4800 when she does that.

I like the semester by semester deal because I know he will f one up and it will create a teachable moment when I tell him that goes in his pile.

You know the nonsense I put up with. Do you blame me lol.

And make sure they bring you a copy of the bill so you can get a good laugh at all the "fees". Have a couple good stiff drinks first because you are gonna need them.

That is for sure.

With everything electronic make sure they provide you "parent access" with your own log in/password. You will need that to visualize grades but also to pay for everything. This will also be where you can see when you kid get parking tickets on campus too.

- Bill processing fee
- Library fee (SHe never stepped foot in the library only drove past it)
- Recreational use fee
- University fee
- Sports Pass processing fee
- Quarterly payment processing fee
- Parking ticket processing fee

This is just a partial list direct from my daughter's last statement....

Excellent plan! Regardless of the situation, if something is free you generally don't see the value.

Yup it goes on and on. I like the fee for food service. You either buy a meal plan that they barely use or pay a 400 or 500 dollar fee not to buy the meal plan lol.

She pizzed me off. She fancies herself a trust fund kid or something. She is one f up away from me setting up a generational skipping trust.

Her daddy got a lot of money.

Paying around $10,000 a semester for my daughter to go to University of Arkansas. Including tuition and fees and apartment expenses.
Thankfully she will be a senior next semester.

WPS
we graduated last Friday

Lol not anymore, the restaurant business gave it now its taking it away lol.

I have a little perspective on this but it cost me about $24,000 per year for the last 8 years with both my girls at A&M College Station. Youngest just graduated with her graduate degree last December so I’m done finally.

Each girl got their undergrad degrees in 3.5 years which saved me a little money.

We set the expectations early on for them to do well academically and they would not have to pay for college and they excelled, both graduating as one of the top 10 kids out of 700 students at their HS.

They both graduated with their degrees and absolutely no debt and are very appreciative of what we have done for them. Both are high achievers and have great jobs now.

Just thought I would give a different perspective on this and how paying for college for them can give them a great head start in life.

She sounds like a “waiter”….waiting on you to die….😆

This is a good plan- I wouldn’t borrow a dime or let a kid borrow to go to school. Get all the aid you can - have parents pay if they saved- go to junior college first, etc. Getting a loan seems like the easy way out.

This mess snuck up on me. Really good grades in high school a large sat score that got her a presidential scholarship, then off the rails we went...... my son is a known, he has dummy all over him lol. A stint in the military and some trade school are probably what he needs. I could see him going to prison for a poorly conceived ponzi scheme also.....

Looks like your parenting skills were not great as you should have taught him the value of studying and money while he was a youngster.

I guarantee his parenting skills are far better than your parenting skills.

A viable alternative is a skilled trade. My boy graduated from H.S. and recieved some offers for football. He instead opted to stay home and get an associates degree in electronic instrumentation that took 2 years. He had several job offers before graduating as he was in the top 10% of his class. He took a job at a nitrogen plant that started him,out at $86,000 a year. He has been there about 3 years now and is making well over 100k. He accumulated no student debt and we paid about $1,000 per semester. He also worked full time at Wal-Mart as an asst. Manager and saved 90% of what he made so he would be ready to leave the nest. He is really my Grandson but I claim him as my own and couldn't be any prouder of him. Some good trades are process technology, welding, building trades, electronic instrumentation, HVAC and plumbing.

Lol it's just a shame this is the internet, and you are old. I suspect you wouldn't say that to my face. That's the difference between me and you. Anything I say here I'll say direct to someone's face.

And it looks like your parents should have taught you when to shut up

Funny this comes up...

We have our youngest daughter, got free tuition due to her father's military service. She went 4 years to UCSC and majored in Literature. We paid for room, board, food, books, etc. She didn't have to work for any of it. Shame on us. She's now working at a local cafe / bakery as the "shop girl." Wasting away all of her talents / schooling. She keeps touting that she's leaving for California, but reality sets in that she can't afford it. She's not applying her knowledge, but she's good at posting things on social media. AHAHHAHAAH

She can be more, but doesn't seem to the drive to do it.

Wrong again, I would say it to your face, though I am not inclined to get physical. And you have attacked me on the internet before. BTW, my two graduated with honors from Tx A&M and each of them now have 3 kids that have graduated without debt and are working.

Sure you would lol

Congrats

Our youngest is graduating HS this week and going to atm in the fall.

She was expecting to pay for school herself as this is what we told all of our kids with the mindset that her mother and I would cover it as long as they were making good grades
and not partying. I expect her to do a little partying as I am not stupid but need her to keep it on the rails for sure. She has saved up over $15k (working since she was 14) and will be paying for her apartment this first year herself.

We will be evaluating this year to year from here on out.

WAWI is the GOAT and isn't afraid to square up at the boat ramp

I know Wawi’s son, he’s tough loving a damn good kid lol

You guys want to be on the undercard at Ratz’s next G2G at the Old Town Ice House in Keller?

AggyCarl is my favorite Carl character

Him, he? Your reading skills are not great, you should have learned the value of studying.

To the OP. My daughter graduated in December’17 and as you know prices continue to increase. As I recall we were spending about 20 K per year plus spending money for her to live off campus in a shared apartment. It’s 10 years later so I would imagine you’re looking at 30K if they live away from home. I only have one and prepared for college, but what made my budget strain was not the tuition & fees. It was the cost of putting her up in an apartment.

I was thinking “hey better get someone over here to collect these teeth off the floor…🤣

Who is the main event?

You let her get a degree in literature? Did she have a plan to use it in that field?

My son got a full ride scholarship at Texas Tech.


After six months he quits. Walks away. Talk about a pucker moment for a father.


Next thing I know, he's working in Austin as a software engineer. Come to find out. My son helped develop how a robot sees you. Particularly automated military weapons. He helped design the, "eyeballs".

That SOB also has three patents and makes 6 figures a year.


I didn't teach him that and I have degrees from UMHB that are pretty much useless.


I've lost complete faith in college. I personally considered it a scam.

I didn't let her, I provided my feedback. She picked it as it's her "strength." She kept spewing how she wants to be a writer, editor, etc. Now the only thing she edits is daily FB post for the cafe.

Increaeses in tuition fees and books have far outpaced inflation from what I have read.

No, I'm talking tuition only.

When I was at a&m from 89 to end of 93 I had 40k from my grandmother, at least that's what dad told me to tell people and that was all I was getting. With a bit of side jobs and some work in the summer I payed for everything out of that. 9 semesters to finish and had 1500 bucks left at the end lol. Now I lived in dumps mostly cause guys can get away with that. There was also plenty of work if you didn't want a regular type job, which I did not. Seems like the check I wrote to school was around 900 a semester and usually 300ish in books. I stayed in an Unaircondioned dorm the first year that was 236 bucks a semester. Ramen noodles and peanut butter sandwiches were a major amount of diet lol. There was always money for beer somehow, someway

Who is the main event

I'll take on anybody

Westside v Anybody

Yet everyone talks about how “pretty” the campuses are. It cost a lot of money to build and maintain these Tahje mahals.