Melissa Korn
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822 appearances
14 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2017
last heard Sep 2024
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WSJ Your Money Briefing · Paying for College: When Should Families Have ‘The Talk’? · 25 Apr 2022
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And in her mind,
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Dollars don't have all that much meaning quite yet.
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So tens of thousands of dollars just seems impossible to comprehend.
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Yes, she's six.
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So I explained to her that, you know, we had opened a 529 when she was literally a few weeks old.
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And it's something that our family thinks a lot about and hopes that we can give her the opportunities that will help her in life.
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But there's no guarantee that we're covering the whole bill.
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Yes, it is expensive.
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Yes, I can still afford dinner tonight.
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No, don't expect to go to that country club for four years or grad school after that on my dime.
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It is.
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And that's part of the reason why the conversation is so important, right?
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It's important for coming up with a financial plan for college, but also it can be really instructive to the student just to understand how much college costs, what the expenses are, what the difference is between tuition and cost of attendance, the latter including living expenses and textbooks and all of that.
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Parents don't necessarily need to break out the spreadsheet with their monthly mortgage payments and the car payments, and here's how much we set aside for vacations every year.
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But there should be discussion of actual dollar figures here, of we think it would be appropriate for us to set aside reasonably to be able to cover X thousand dollars.
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You can decide to go to a low-cost school, and that will cover all of your undergrad and some of your graduate program.
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that could cover one year at a particularly pricey school.
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And, you know, talking through at that level of detail can be really valuable because you're giving some ownership of this decision to the child, but not giving them a blank check.
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Right.
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