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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Wooster and Juniata both gave my child approximately 25K in merit aid (per year, for four years). She had a 3.7 UW GPA, very average SAT scores and just a handful of AP's.

She also go aid offers from other, more highly ranked schools.[/quote]
[b]This is helpful! I am still in shock as I realize that our HHI of $210k (which only recently got that high) means no financial aid on all the net price calculators I run. I can't imagine actually paying $70k/year (!) so we're scrambling to think about options. PP, could you mention the other, more highly ranked schools that also offered aid? [/quote][/b]

PP, we too are a donut hole family.  DS received no offers of merit aid (high GPA; high ACT; high ECs).  However he did receive two unsolicited offers from small privates in Virginia.  These are schools that buy the sheets of high scoring ACT students.  I received the call from (guessing:  Trinity and Something Wesleyan in Virginia) the admissions office. They were willing to offer him something like $22,000 a year "governor's scholarship" but when I said he had a 36 on retry instead of something like a 32, i heard a rustle of paper and the representative said "Oh we can then offer him the "president's scholarship" of $26K a year.  That was all well and good but the LACs didn't offer th emajor DS wanted and when we did the calculations, UVA was a much better financial deal than the LACs with even $26 deleted from the $75K start fee.  I believe someone recently posted some of these schools that do this.  You'll find they tend to be smaller LACs or southern schools that want the high SAT and ACT nos. in order to report to USN&WR to up their allover ranking.  Good luck.  Remember also that you are paying the difference between $75K and whatever in-state fees are (both of my kids went in-state) in after-tax dollars so if you don't have  a529, savings, trust fund or wealthy grandparents youu have to factor in the cost of what you have to make minus taxes to arrive at the figure you will be "out" every year.  Also, more than 60% of our nation's kids now take 5 and 6 years to graduate (I have one) so bear that in mind when making your decision.  Good luck. Collegeconfidential.com is the best site to start working on.[/quote]

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