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[quote=Anonymous]Why do so many UMC parents not just come right out and tell their rising seniors that there is no way in hell that they can afford to send them to schools that cost over $XX,000 dollars?! I have at least 4 friends and family members who for whatever reason didn't save enough to send their children to anything but the most bare bones priced college, but their children who are putting together college lists don't know this because their parents haven't told them.

Is it that the parents themselves are clueless about the actual prices and/or the fact that their incomes will make them ineligible for much financial aid at the public schools?

Is it that they think somehow it will be less painful for little Larlo to learn that he can't attend Vanderbilt or University of Miami at some later date instead of before he submits the application? Are they just willing to screw their family finances and borrow hundreds of thousands $$$$$$?

What gives? These are parents who have asked those of us with students who have gone through the admissions gauntlet of hell in the past couple of years for advice, so don't tell me to MYOB. [/quote]

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