Katharina Buczek
“Her father is an alumnus, and she has this old sweatshirt of his that she kept to remind her of him,” she explained.
“She cried so much when she got in, and both her stepfather and I were proud of her because she worked hard to get in.”
Her stepdaughter was admitted to a great school, too, that is reportedly top-ranked for her field of interest.
Now that she and her husband are done helping the girls navigate college applications, though, another problem has arisen– how exactly they are going to pay for her stepdaughter’s tuition.
Apparently, her husband and her stepdaughter’s biological mother are not able to afford the school’s full tuition. So, her stepdaughter will be forced to take out some loans.
According to her, her stepdaughter will graduate with about $40,000 of loans in total– which she still thinks is pretty modest compared to the school’s tuition and her stepdaughter’s post-graduation earning prospects.
Obviously, though, her own daughter will be able to graduate completely debt-free. And for her husband, that has apparently become a big problem.
In fact, he now wants to split up her daughter’s trust fund in order to help all three kids go through college– because, in theory, there is enough money to cover all of their education costs.
If they went through with that plan, though, she knows that her daughter would not have much money left over and would definitely need to take out loans for graduate school.
Still, her husband does not see that as a problem and believes that it is fair for all three kids to start out “on equal footing” following college.
Quite frankly, though, she thinks her husband’s idea is seriously unfair to her daughter. First of all, her late husband– her daughter’s father– had to die in order for any of that money to become available. Second, the fund is essentially her daughter’s inheritance from her late husband.
