[Need Advice] - Girlfriend going through a difficult time

That is a very slippery slope. Been there.

Also a slippery slope. Been there too.

 

This is a call you have to make based on how you feel about her. However....never ever fret about paying for education. It will always pay for it self. The people that rack up 200K plus coming out of law messed up somewhere. I was never the smartest or hardest worker but I've never had to pay much for an education. This is no to brag about myself (admitedly lazy) but rather the great opportunity so many students squander in this great country. There are so many resources out there willing to pay you to go. Millions of scholarship money goes untouched because people just don't take the time to properly research what they could get. I go to Michigan Law and am being paid roughly 12K a semester (stipend) to attend the school. When you consider that my lifestyle requires nothing more than food and shelter... 12k more than covers any reasonable expenses. I had a 3.6 in undergrad which means I got A-'s and B's. I got a 168 on the LSAT which put me below last year's 90th percentile (it is acually below the avg. at the school I attend). Your girl has a 3.8, legal residency, and is working what is presumably not a job of her choice (if you are getting paid less then 15 you are probably working somewhere that doesn't require much from their employees)..w/o her parents help??? That is a financial aid wonderland. Colleges love that kind of story and would line up to pay her to attend. I am blessed to have had my parent's financial help but that basically wiped out any chance I had at gov't grants and stipends. She qualifies for gov't financial aid and scholarship...600 is nothing in the big picture. Help her if she is the one...but emphasize education. My parents were immigrants and my dad can't even spell appliances correctly... yet they own lots of real estate and are self made millionares. So this may seem like a difficult time for her but like St. Augustine....it won't get that much harder. It won't get that much easier either...that's life. 600 is not something to fret over.

 

Pay her $600 debt and she might help you later down the line.

 

Shes also 18. Think back to when you were 18 DD except throw in a few bad breaks here and there.