Last month, NJ teen Rachel Canning moved out of her house and/or was kicked out of her house, and unsuccessfully sued her parents for child support. Rachel, an 18-year-old honors student at Morris Catholic, was accepted to numerous colleges, and said in her suit she wanted her parents to pay for her remaining Catholic school tuition (about $5,300), plus a deposit for college. The suit was eventually dropped, and it now turns out that Rachel never really needed her parents' help with college: "Decision made," Canning wrote on her Facebook, according to the Star-Ledger. "WNE U class of 2018 BME Major w/ 56,000$ [sic] scholarship."
WNE refers to Western New England University in Springfield, Massachusets, whose tuition including room and board is approximately $46K for the first year—meaning she'll have an extra $10K for, I don't know, paying off approximately $13K in legal fees she owes. Unless her parents already took care of it. Considering that Canning had sought child support of $654 per week (in addition to the high school, college, and legal fees), it's the least they could do.
Originally, Rachel said she wanted to go to the University of Vermont to study biomedical engineering; she was given a $20K scholarship offer there, but this apparently works out better for all parties involved. It's comforting to know colleges don't necessarily judge prospective students based on the very public lawsuits they file against their parents.
