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[quote=Anonymous]OP, fill out the Net Price Calculator at Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Williams, Amherst, Wesleyan, Haverford, Hamilton, Bowdoin, Middlebury. It takes about 10 minutes, so it will be well worth a couple hours of your time to get numbers from each of these schools. Just google Net Price Calculator and the name of the school. Each school is required to have a Net Price Calculator on its website.

You ought to be eligible for FA at most of the top private schools, especially the "need blind" schools. But they will look at other factors besides income, including equity in your home, savings, investments, even the value of your cars.

Some of the schools that are lower on the USNews list will offer merit aid, so it's worth looking at those too. Google merit aid, and you'll find a number of lists. USNews had one recently, and the NYT had one also. They aren't absolutely up to date, and "merit aid" can mean a school that costs $62K gives $1K merit aid to National Merit Finalists, but it's worth checking. Also look on College Confidential, where there are a lot of threads about schools that offer merit aid. Generally, the better the student, the more likely he/she is to get merit aid.

Look at Colleges that Change Lives, which lists some of the less selective schools. I know kids who have gone to these schools and had great experiences, and several have gotten great aid packages too.

Good luck to you and your son, OP! [/quote]

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