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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP - I would start with college confidential.  You will get the best input there.  Also check out the scholarship books on Amazon.  IMHE much of the game for you will be need-based financial aid (which means filing the FAFSA).  Most college webpages have financial calculators.  Merit aid for middle and upper middle-class students has been drying up.  Your son's GPA is not strong in today's current crazy expectations so I don't see a special merit scholarship unless you can find a LAC that needs a sax player.  You are best off starting with looking at colleges and universities that your family can afford without a scholarship. Do you have good in-state schools?  Check out those calculators.  Read everything you can about scholarships on College Confidential.  After our DCs got accepted we tried for many of the independent scholarships (paper intensive - lots of applications requrements) and not one of them came through which is what you will read on college confidential and in the scholarship books.  So start from the premise that you are funding it all and allow for the fact that it may take your child 5 or 6 years to finish.  Don't tour schools you can't afford.  We applied to a few Ivies where DC had legacy status but held off on the tours due to the expense (The ivies get 40K applications a year so don't care if you've toured or not).  Realize that some of these schools are now $75K a year and climbing.  If you don't have savings stashed away, bear in mind that you are paying that in after-tax dollars so you have to make more than that to come up with the tuition dollars.  We wound up paying full-frieght for all three children but in-state. FAFSA gave us nothing even though we really needed financial assitance (donut hole family taking care of elderly parents).  But if you file FAFSA you can still get the $5500 or loan student loan. The rest we had to pay for.  Good luck![/quote]

thank you!  We moved to the Boston area and we have amazing schools but EVERYONE wants to go school here so it is crazy competitive for in state kids.  My son is a great kid but has to work really hard for the grades that he has.  He is a hard worker so I am not too concerned about his future but I am shocked at how insane this whole process is.  Do you think we need a "college coach"? It sounds like a load of crap but he swears all his friends are getting one.  And the ACT/SAT tutors?  Insanity, and we have two more after him![/quote]

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