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[quote=Anonymous]1. What everyone else said. 2. Take out loans, knowing that will start to dictate future plans--hard to pay back as a curator, English or history prof, social worker, or teacher, though there are public service loan forgiveness programs. 3. Really strategize the APs to take time off in the middle or graduate early--the range is extraordinary (from pretty much only giving nothing but advanced placement in a couple of classes to getting a year+ of credits). If graduating early, not only savings in tuition but getting into workplace early--whole recent thread on that. 4. If National Merit semifinalist, offers will come with full/substantial aid and even offers to complete the application for you, though larger awards from schools that are less familiar. That's without looking at the formal list of national merit schools--but if looking at that list, you might maximize chances by parsing numbers of just how many national merit scholarships they give out. 5. There are SO MANY schools that are never mentioned here, esp Midwest SLACs, that people in the region know are good schools by word-of-mouth reputation but may not look "selective" based on stats--top students find their cohort because the student body self-selects those schools (i.e., in that the mid-range kids are going to commuter state schools and top kids are going to those schools). So even if they are not 10% acceptance, the students who are picking that school are the solid students/honors/AP kids/valedictorians. [/quote]
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