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[quote=Anonymous]OP here again. I should add that I am definitely interested in hearing thoughts about living in VA vs. MD.  But I am also interested in other thoughts and strategies, like attending UMd even if your kid could have gone to a more highly ranked and much more expensive private.  Or any other strategies (magic ways to grow the 529?) that I may be missing.

Also, we are not paying for private schools now, are kids are in public, so we will definitely have more payment shock than full pay private school parents who go from 30-40k tuition to 50-70k tuition.  We'll be going from less than $5000/6000 per kid a year in aftercare and camps to college tuition.  We're saving all we can, but it definitely won't be enough to fund 4 years per kid at a private college.

My middle class parents paid for both my and my brother's college and most of our grad school with no financial aid and a little bit of merit aid for my brother.  It's depressing to think how hard it will be for us to achieve the same for our children, but I know that is the reality with the insanity of college costs now.  [/quote]

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