He Wants To Sell His Youngest Daughter’s Car To Fund His Eldest Daughter’s College Tuition After She Lost Her Scholarship
One of the biggest things some parents struggle with is helping their children get to college and paying tuition. When you don’t have enough to get your kid to college, it can make you feel like a horrible parent.
One man is struggling with his youngest daughter after he told her he’d have to sell her car and put the money toward her older sister’s college tuition.
He is 55 and has two daughters. His eldest is 21 and about to enter her senior year of college. His youngest is 17 and is about to enter her senior year of high school.
Both of his daughters are hard workers and have done very well in school, but unfortunately, his eldest had some struggles with her mental health entering her junior year, and it affected her grades.
“She has a full-ride academic scholarship that is dependent on her GPA, [and] based on her current grades, after this semester, her GPA will dip below the cutoff,” he said.
“After extensive back and forth on the phone with the school, they say it is contractual, and we will be obligated to pay next year’s tuition. If she gets her GPA back above the threshold next semester, we can ‘readdress’ the situation to determine if her scholarship can be reinstated for the final semester. We bent over backward, trying to find a solution.”
His daughter did everything she could to get her GPA back up to keep her scholarship and looked into taking summer classes. Unfortunately, after calculating all the possibilities, it became apparent that her GPA would not go back up to where it needed to be, and he and his wife would need to help her pay for her final year of school.
“Of course, we were upset with her for allowing this to happen,” he explained.
“We had a long talk with her, and she’s upset with herself, too. But she’s a very smart kid who really struggled with her mental health from sophomore year into junior year, which affected her grades. Under no circumstances did we want her to leave college with only one year left.”
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His youngest daughter is also very smart and earned great grades in the last few years of high school.
As a reward, he and his wife purchased a car for her, a Toyota Rav4. It was something she wanted more than anything, and since she got it, she’s been driving everywhere.
However, after everything that happened with his eldest daughter’s scholarship, he and his wife made a difficult decision to help her pay for her tuition.
A few days ago, he and his wife sat down their youngest and told her they’d have to sell her car to pay for part of her sister’s tuition.
“Mind you, the cost of this car will cover probably one-third of the tuition for one full year after FAFSA, probably less with the value depreciation,” he added.
“She became extremely upset and told us that it was unfair that we were ‘rewarding’ our oldest for failing and ‘punishing’ her for succeeding.”
“We never wanted her to feel punished or for our oldest to feel rewarded. It’s just the reality of what we need to do right now. If the same happened to her, we would do everything in our power to help.”
Since their talk, his youngest has been devastated, and he’s wondering how bad of a person he’d be if he sold her car.
What would you do if you were in his position?
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