Originally Posted by madeinuk
Re. Bostonian's last para on post #185354

I agree. My DW and I have worked up from some pretty disadvantaged circumstances so that we earn enough so that we CAN save money to pay for our DD's college. I do not want to hear some smug liberal telling me or my daughter that her potential admission application will be be not looked upon favourably based on her academic merits (God willing may they last until then) but instead will likely be compromised by her parents' willingness to toil on her behalf.

I hope it works out, but like the rest of us, you're one market crash, one programming error, one criminal act, or one medical emergency away from insolvency. Something to think about.

In my experience, "willingness to toil" is something that can be found in abundance in poor communities.