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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree that it is doable. But not if you earn a middle class income and spend it on private school, a big house, fancy vacations every year, a luxury vehicle, travel sports, designer clothes, etc.

I am a single parent (professional) who raised my kid in a condo, chosen because of its proximity to good public schools. I saved as much as I could when she was growing (which started VERY low), and continued saving generously when she was in college. She chose a lower tier private that gave her a merit scholarship that cut the price in half. She worked during the summers and won a few more modest scholarships in college that enabled her to graduate with no loans.

I am proud of her and myself.

You have to have priorities people. A college education is expensive, and as others have said, you saw this coming for a long time. [/quote]

But most people just want to keep up with the neighbors and friends.  Most just spend all extra raises over the years and move to a larger home and buy that fancy car and take the vacations they "deserve".  Instead of saving for college and retirement.  There are plenty of excellent private schools that offer great merit to good/excellent students.  My own 26ACT/3.5UW/no APs got into a T80 that costs $65K+ and only cost us $40K/year.  Had they been a top student it would have only cost us $30K.  And that kid also got into a T120 school that would have only cost us $30K/year.  Or they could have gone to an excellent state school for $3K tuition/year (rest was merit award) for a total cost of about $15-17K/year.  This was not a top student---yet they could attend a great school without much debt---my kid could have earned $10-12K of that $15=17K themselves, leaving me with ~$5-6K to pay per year

Point is you can find the right school at the right cost if you look.

My 1500/3.99UW/6APs got into a T50 and instead of $80k+ we are only paying $40K/year.  Had we been searching for merit, my kid could be attending college for less than $20K easily, just not at an elite university.  They got into several ranked between 30-80 that would only cost us $40-45K/year and we were not even searching for merit.

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