I will never forget the talk my mom had with me when I told her I was going to UT & needed her to co-sign. She was fine with it, but sat down with me going over the line items, the loan amount, etc, and said "You are the one who's going to be responsible for this. Not me." All $48,000+ by the time I finished my degree. (I was young & wanted to go to Austin for not-the-best reasons).... I felt that ah-ha moment of adulthood when she went over all of that with me.
I decided I would stay home for my basics... Then I got my degree at UofH. I am SO GLAD she put that all on paper for me & that I didn't land in a mountain of debt. Who knows how differently my life would've turned out if I'd gone.... But everything happens for a reason & I'm glad things turned out the way they did. I continued to work to pay for classes & parents helped pay for books. Note: I am not a hard-line longhorn fan... I respect an A&M degree all the same
. That said, the cost of a college education is outrageously inflated IMO. 4951