It’s easy to see why parents can’t bring themselves to stop their children from borrowing money to go to college. No one wants to deny a child the opportunity to attend a dream university. Here’s the problem though: The people making the final decision about whether to take on tens of thousands of dollars of student loan debt are mere teenagers. Figuring out how much to pay for a college education is one of the biggest financial decisions people make in their lifetime, and parents often leave the final call to a 17-year-old who has never purchased anything more expensive than a bicycle. There
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