@hittman 's daughter is in school isn't she? She's like a working adult with awesome parents.
My parents did that for FOUR of us, sometimes more than one together. They were like "We raised you to go to college we made you DO stuff, we will pay for EVERY penny of what you need except for entrainment money, and you can do that yourselves." They made sure we had working transportation, etc. They were like ,"Where ever you can get it, you pay ZILCH. They had a Carnegie Mellon transfer to Brown, they had a Yale, they had a Swarthmore, and they had a Philadelphia Music of the Arts collegiate.
Course, we are all paying money anyway because we all got graduate degrees and they were like, "This is where it ends." LOL.
I thoroughly enjoyed my social expenses jobs in college I got to drive the drunk bus on nights I decided not to drink, I waited tables in the "awkward first date café" and that was awesome I may have even worked in the library at some point. That was a bit soporific.
I wish I could pay for college for my kid, but he refuses to go. That's okay, I figure everyone needs a gap year, honestly, and some people need a gap decade or trade school.
Anna