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Originally Posted by SageGaiGar

The haste may be to save up for the expenses to come.

Spoiler:

It just felt too sudden for me.

Maybe there's a small time gap between the day they had the dinner conversation, and the day Yasuko left early to take on more work, but from the viewer's point of view (i.e. me), it seems like it all happened within a day and that's not very convincing.

Also, everyone did the form-filling a year ago and Ryuuji's (if I didn't see it wrongly) was to proceed further to university. So, shouldn't Ryuuji and Yasuko be foreseeing expenses and whatsoever from that point?

Since I knew roughly how this leads to what happened later, it seemed like a rather weak plot device to move things forward. Oh well.