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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My high achiever star got into top 10 schools but didn't get any aid or scholarship and we couldn't afford full pay so be afraid of your dreams coming true.[/quote]

Duh. Top 10 schools don’t give merit aid. [/quote]

Weird. My DC is a freshman at Stanford this year and has a full ride scholarship for four years. Our HHI is $675K and our NW is $7.8M. We’re not sure what to do with the $350K in his 529 plan. Change the beneficiary later to a grandkid, I guess.

I think you meant to say that T10 schools don’t give merit aid to normal students. They certainly give it to world-class candidates, though. [/quote]

I am curious, is your DC a recruited "world class" athlete or have an incredible talent in some other area? [/quote]

Recruited athlete. Hand selected during junior year. [b]Planning for major[/b]. Also with an SAT of 1590, an unweighted HS GPA that rounds to 4.00, and a weighted GPA that rounds to 4.64. On track for straight As in Autumn Quarter. [/quote]

Uggh. Planning for major in Physics and to declare in the upcoming Spring Quarter. [/quote]

No, your recruited athlete offspring[url=https://stanforddaily.com/2022/05/31/most-common-major-for-stanford-athletes-is-human-biology-data-shows/] is not going to be majoring in Physics[/url]. There will be no majoring in anything where there are set labs your offspring must attend. Note how the athlete-popular "[url=https://humanbiology.stanford.edu/academics/major-requirements]human biology[/url]" program is structured. Do you see any discussion of labs? That would be a "no".

If your kid thinks he wants to get a degree in some sort of science, then do the BS (not BA) in Human Biology. Or maybe "Management Science and Engineering" with the emphasis on management. I suppose you could do a regular engineering program so long as you have [ur=https://www.forbes.com/sites/deniserestauri/2013/09/26/whats-the-next-big-thing-for-engineering-students-a-lab-that-fits-in-a-backpack/?sh=4e5ae1a2796fl]portable labs (in a "backpack")[/url] that your kid can do on the road or outsource to his academic support person.

But the most important thing by far is to be fully available for games, practices, and off-season conditioning. No distractions. I'm afraid "physics" doesn't fill the bill.[/quote]

Thanks for the unsolicited advice, but let’s leave the negotiations between athletics and academic schedules to the departmental experts at Stanford. Having just been there…[b]yesterday[/b]…I can assure you that a Bachelor of Science in Physics is not mutually exclusive with a varsity athlete’s extracurricular schedule. Just because no one in your family could achieve a goal like this doesn’t mean others cannot.[/quote]

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