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[quote=Anonymous]My DS is doing very well in high school and wants to apply to in-state science and engineering programs. No standardized test scores yet but excellent GPA, some extracurriculars, etc. We are upper middle class and DH and I both have undergraduate degrees from SLACs and grad degrees from LACs. We have been saving for college since he was a baby and have enough saved for his undergraduate goals. We cannot afford undergrad programs like the ones that we attended. The cost has skyrocketed too much and we cannot do it without risking our retirement savings, which we will not do. We do not want to be a burden on our kids when we are old.

Is our DS going to be put into a LAC/SLAC admissions bucket just because we have degrees from those places? I keep reading about students with excellent GPAs and high test scores getting WL by the in state programs. DH will not inherit anything and I have already received my inheritance and put it all towards my DS's 529. We do not expect to receive any financial aid based on net priced calculators. We are already getting pressured by DH's family and my more distant relatives to ask for gifts from my family for private college and I will not do this. I have no reason to believe that they have the ability to help and I don't want to ask.[/quote]

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