Big merit at safety vs full pay at reach

[Anonymous]

My DD was offered $40K per year from a safety SLAC and she would have taken it if she hadn't gotten into her dream school, which also happens to be in state.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DD was offered $40K per year from a safety SLAC and she would have taken it if she hadn't gotten into her dream school, which also happens to be in state.

That is fantastic! Would you mind sharing the name of the school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DD was offered $40K per year from a safety SLAC and she would have taken it if she hadn't gotten into her dream school, which also happens to be in state.

That is fantastic! Would you mind sharing the name of the school?

St. Lawrence U

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I chose the full-tuition merit aid (many years ago) at a T75 university over an Ivy (with a little need-based aid). I was totally on my own to pay for college, so I couldn't see how I would be able to pay the difference. In retrospect I could have made it work. In terms of career and family life, I have done well, so it was a smart choice overall. I will confess (here) that I do sometimes get a chip on my shoulder when all the Ivy-degreed people around me make assumptions about me based on where I went to college. After all these years I should be way past that, but sometimes I am not.

I've come to realize that it says so much more about them than me. Just had a dinner with a couple the other night and one of them attended Michigan Law. The dad graduated from an Ivy and he and another Ivy undergrad enrolled in the law program assumed that they would just smoke all their classmates from the Big 10 public universities. He said he realized after the humbling from his first test that the top students from public universities were as equally qualified if not more hungry than he and his fellow Ivy undergrad classmates.

I attended a small LAC for BA and went on to graduate near top of class at an Ivy for grad school. I don't bother to throw in the second point when folks respond with barely concealed derision about where I went to undergrad because it really is more about them cleaving onto a status due to lack of confidence or success in their subsequent lives.

Your last line is SO true.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DD was offered $40K per year from a safety SLAC and she would have taken it if she hadn't gotten into her dream school, which also happens to be in state.

That is fantastic! Would you mind sharing the name of the school?

St. Lawrence U

Thank you! That is on the list to check out.

[Anonymous]

DD chose full pay "reach" over full ride safety. We had the money saved, so it was up to her.

[Anonymous]

Depends on the ROI to be honest.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Safety and graduate school. Our goal is debt free and masters degree. [/quote

Your goal or your kid's goal?

[Anonymous]

Depends on how high the reach is and how low the safety is. I saw someone call William & Mary a safety school on here.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Safety and graduate school. Our goal is debt free and masters degree.

Your goal or your kid's goal?

DP. Don't be an pedantic asshole. I will point out the irony that you are also posting in a college forum.

Also, learn to edit your posts properly so they won't be missed, even when they are pedantic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DD was offered $40K per year from a safety SLAC and she would have taken it if she hadn't gotten into her dream school, which also happens to be in state.

Even at $40k, that means you're price will hover around $40k per year. That's 15K per year higher than in-state for us. Makes no sense to us.

The $25K merit at various private schools won't cut it for us. We have saved enough to be full pay in-state, and that's it.

College costs are too high.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DD was offered $40K per year from a safety SLAC and she would have taken it if she hadn't gotten into her dream school, which also happens to be in state.

Even at $40k, that means you're price will hover around $40k per year. That's 15K per year higher than in-state for us. Makes no sense to us.

The $25K merit at various private schools won't cut it for us. We have saved enough to be full pay in-state, and that's it.

College costs are too high.

Actually comes to about $35k which is less more than some of our instate options but not all. Certainly made it an option we wouldn’t have considered at full price $75k.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DD was offered $40K per year from a safety SLAC and she would have taken it if she hadn't gotten into her dream school, which also happens to be in state.

Even at $40k, that means you're price will hover around $40k per year. That's 15K per year higher than in-state for us. Makes no sense to us.

The $25K merit at various private schools won't cut it for us. We have saved enough to be full pay in-state, and that's it.

College costs are too high.

I know that the cost of college is getting ridiculous but only a handful of schools have ~80k/yr COA for full pay students

[Anonymous]

Whatever costs the least in the long term. Some safeties are great, and students will get more attention.