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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why not use the state school option?[/quote]

A lot of middle class do it.
But the conversation with your teenager is not going to be easy.
Kid: I am so excited to be accepted to my favorite and top college in the country.
You: We can’t afford 80k a year, instead you should go to state university.
Kid : So, tell me why I was working so hard in high school?
You : Well…[/quote]

Yep.  Though my dad told me I could only apply to VA public universities.  He explained how he’d pay in-state in full or I could cover the difference for private.  I just listened and applied in-state.  My parents always mentioned the high cost of privates/ivies because we were middle class donut hole and would get zero aid.

We make more (adjusted with the times) than my parents did so we are surrounded by Ivy/top 10 private grads who wish to send their kids the same so I get it’s hard for them to digest.[/quote]

You know what, I don't feel sorry for them, not at all. They are part of the drivers behind this notion of prestige education they so desperately cleave on to. And now the horrors of having to inhabit the same space as their public university spawn.[/quote]

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