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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ivies are cheaper than state universities for middle class kids. If “middle class” means $60k/year....

Harvard is exceptionally generous, so all you have to do is get on there. [/quote]

O.k., sure. But the highly competitive applicants who apply to Harvard and don't get accepted will like get big scholarships elsewhere.  They know they are going to school for free, it's just a matter of where.

That is not the reality for most kids.[/quote]

Agree that if you’re competitive at Harvard you’ll get a good package elsewhere. My point was that somebody keeps posting here that you should just get into Harvard and you’ll be set—as if every kid in the DMV can just get into Harvard.

Also, the other Ivies don’t give great FA, and zero merit aid. I have personal experience with a “top Ivy” as a single mom with two kids in college, and meh. I know another kid with a single mom with a lower salary than mine, and just the one kid on college, and the kid had to turn down the same top Ivy for a second-tier school which gave full FA. Which is actually a fantastic outcome! But people here need to stop posting that middle class families can get all the FA they need from Ivies and other elites, is all I was saying.[/quote]

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