Paying your Own Tuition & Recruiting

International student here - comes from a family that makes $36k USD per year (my parents are based in an asian country hence the currency conversion). Tried my best at IB but kinda not sure if I will get in. Would like to know stories of kids who kind of paid their tuition and did not belong to a trust fund. My tuition varies from 10k - 20k after financial aid - but I made around 6/7k ( i had free housing, with unpaid IB internship and startup internship) and paid a chunk of the tuition so that my parents do not have to pay.

I do not feel proud tbh - I see my friends partying and stuff while I do not have much money to do anything because I just paid my tuition so I am kind of in a financial crunch.

Would love to learn more stories.

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Most Americans these days “pay their tuition” thought student loans. My parents both paid their college tuition with part time jobs, but while I worked in college my pay was comical compared to the cost of living. Entry level wages have not kept up with the soaring cost of higher education. 
 

I will say that the day I paid off my student loans was a hell of a good day. 

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