Did you folks not do ANY saving?

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Anonymous wrote:You all need to stop beating up on this one parent. You have NO idea how little you know about parenting a child with SNs and how ignorant you all sound. In the words of Donald Rumsfeld, you don’t even know what you don’t know. For you, these are the unknown unknowns. (Kudos to you. No hard feelings. But you just do not know of which you speak.). But good on ya for thinking you were good planners.

Pot calling the little black. Some of us have children with SNs.

SN parent here an I agree with PP. No one has 100% knowledge, ever.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You all need to stop beating up on this one parent. You have NO idea how little you know about parenting a child with SNs and how ignorant you all sound. In the words of Donald Rumsfeld, you don’t even know what you don’t know. For you, these are the unknown unknowns. (Kudos to you. No hard feelings. But you just do not know of which you speak.). But good on ya for thinking you were good planners.

Pot calling the little black. Some of us have children with SNs.

SN parent here an I agree with PP. No one has 100% knowledge, ever.

+1. Another SN parent here. I can't even begin to tally the costs since birth - the testing, the PTs, the OTs, the psychs, the pyschiatrists, the testing, the private schools, the school advocates, more private schools, more testing, then finally into college but battles with Office of Disability Services, more testing, more expenses since University wants to charge for autistic students, then a fifth year required to graduate, then a sixth year. Then the parents start getting sick and are in residential care. One parent lingered for 8 years. She had round the clock care. And none of this covered by insurance.

[Anonymous]

If you ride your kid's butt, it's really not terribly difficult to qualify for obscenely generous merit aid at tier 2-4 colleges. Or maybe they get into a top 15, which have incredibly financial aid for sub-$200K HHI.

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LOL. PP, not all of the top 15 schools will give enough $$$ to make the finances work for sub-$200,000/year income.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:LOL. PP, not all of the top 15 schools will give enough $$$ to make the finances work for sub-$200,000/year income.

Cost, financial aid, and family budget are key to planning for college. I've spent hours plugging data into net cost estimators for different schools and have a list, which I have handed to my kid. It has about 30 schools on it. They are all schools that I can afford. Otherwise, I can afford to spend $30,000 a year on school. If DS picks a school that is more expensive, he has to figure out how to pay for it. He quickly got the idea that he'd rather have ME pay for it and is planning his applications accordingly. That means that Washington University in St. Louis and a bunch of OOS public universities came off of his list, and some smaller, highly ranked national LACs went on his list.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:LOL. PP, not all of the top 15 schools will give enough $$$ to make the finances work for sub-$200,000/year income.

Cost, financial aid, and family budget are key to planning for college. I've spent hours plugging data into net cost estimators for different schools and have a list, which I have handed to my kid. It has about 30 schools on it. They are all schools that I can afford. Otherwise, I can afford to spend $30,000 a year on school. If DS picks a school that is more expensive, he has to figure out how to pay for it. He quickly got the idea that he'd rather have ME pay for it and is planning his applications accordingly. That means that Washington University in St. Louis and a bunch of OOS public universities came off of his list, and some smaller, highly ranked national LACs went on his list.

Love to hear about those LACs please!