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[quote=Anonymous]We are on the verge of making a decision with our graduating HS senior, and he has many offers with varying merit aid offers (mostly public, but some privates) and because money is an issue for us, we would of course like him to attend the school that costs us the least over 4 years. Yes, these schools all offer different majors and school atmosphere and all that, but at the end of the day we as parents look at it like our child needs to make the best out of whatever situation they are being given, and if one school offers him a great package because he worked hard in HS and got great grades and besides it was him who chose to apply to these schools in the first place (even if some of these were likelies or safeties or whatever) he should attend whatever helps us pay the least. I'm not sure he necessarily sees it that way, but I'm also not sure it should be up to him to decide since he's not paying $ for it. Keeping in mind he's the oldest and we will have two kids behind him, one in college at the same time, I really need to set this expectation that college is what you put into it, wherever you go, but I'm not sure kids these days are being told that. I'm really asking this question not for those who have saved for college in full, but for anyone who is not... did you ever make this decision with your child and how did that go? [/quote]

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