Again, so many people are too lazy to read OPs comments. It's not rocket science people! Just take one minute and read before you sound like an idiot. Good for you, OP! I respect anyone who has the motivation and drive to serve the military, I'm much too cowardly and afraid of getting shot, otherwise I would do the same.

That's ****** up

Most people still arguing for/against parents paying when the point wasn't "waah they won't pay", the point was that the parents assumed OP would ask for money when he was at the bare minimum entitled to his acceptance letters.

They open your post, it's a criminal offence. Sue & the money you receive go to your top choice college!

That is very selfish of them, but let's be honest here. Your parents are not responsible for your college tuition. Once you reach the age of majority, you are responsible for yourself. Again, it is selfish of them, but being selfish is their right in this case. Still, they should have given you the acceptance letters. It wasn't right of them to interfere with you getting your mail.

Those parents are dicks.

I mean no disrespect, OP, but it is perfectly understandable that there are those who believe you intended to have your parents pay your tuition. You don't mention ROTC in your original post, but you do mention your parents' concern for tuition costs. Not everyone is going to read through all the posts to find yours about enrolling in ROTC to get your schooling paid for without your parents' assistance. But... I'm still mystified by the reaction that some people are having regarding the "parents shouldn't have to pay for their kids' tuition" issue. I took two years off of high school before going to college. I spent five years doing that, working in a menial position to help pay bills, getting student aid to pay for tuition, and when I had my bachelor's, continued to work in the same menial position... only now with student loans to pay off. If my parents could have helped pay my tuition, they would have. They gave me what little help they could, buying me groceries, that sort of thing. My parents had to declare bankruptcy after the deaths of my sisters and the expensive lawsuits that followed. (My sisters died in a car accident, the tires on my sister's car had been recalled and when she went in to have her car checked out, they failed to tell her. My parents also fought for the guardianship of my oldest sister's son, whose father flaked out during her pregnancy and then came back after she died, suddenly wanting to be a dad. My parents lost both lawsuits, incidentally.) So it just doesn't make sense to me that any parent would be so grossly selfish that they would deliberately hinder their child's future so that they wouldn't have to get rid of their toys. Anyway, long, drawn-out rant aside... I wish you the best of luck, OP, and if you're driven enough, I'm sure you'll figure it all out.

I'm sorry that people turned this around on you and it was really horrible office parents to do that. Are you SURE it had to do with the cars? Maybe they really just didn't want you to go away or if they knew about your ROTC plan maybe they were scared about you being in the military. Some parents have a hard time with the prospect of letting go of their children and do stupid things.

Sorry. Not "office" I meant of your. Stupid auto correct.

So people like you are the ones who my tax money is going to. What a shame