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[quote=Anonymous]I'm a single working mom and my DS is a senior in high school. He is a great student with stellar SAT scores and a variety of EC's and he has never given me any issues.  We have been looking at colleges (we are in VA) and he is mainly interested in schools out of state and some of them are completely unaffordable to me.  I only make about $85K/year, but I have managed to save up enough to pay for tuition and hopefully also room/board for four years at a public VA university.  I cannot afford an OOS public or private school.  DS is very disappointed and he keeps sending me lists of schools that he is interested in and none of them are in VA, except VT and UVA.  He is mainly interested in Purdue and UIUC.  I sat down with him on several occasions and showed him the finances and what I can afford, but he keeps insisting that there is a path for an OOS school for him.  He has not had an easy life and he has worked very hard and I wish that I could afford more for him, but I don't want to go into debt because I'm 46 and I need to concentrate on my own retirement now as well.  [/quote]

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