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To: DavesM who wrote (233143)	3/2/2002 5:36:12 PM
From: Mr. Whist	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

We got about about $3,500 to $4,000 a year in "financial aid" when my daughter attended Northwestern '96-'00. She also has $11,000 in federal loans that she is currently paying back at the rate of about $120 a month. She also qualified for "work-study," so she earned her spending money by working at the student onion 12 hours a week. I think the bill to attend NW during those years was about $22,000 a year, including room and board. Now it's closer to $31,000 a year. I doubt if we would be able to afford to send her there now. My son is a frosh at Madtown (Wisconsin-Madison.) Not as expensive as NW, but still costly because we're paying out-of-state. Bottom line is I have a roof that has needed replacing for the past five years but it ain't gonna get replaced for another four years. I also drive crappy cars. That's the price I'm paying for allowing my kids to go to college where they want to. But I ain't complaining. It's only money. Better to spend it on them than to lose it in the stock market.