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[quote=Anonymous]For kid applying next year, we explained that we can’t afford OOS publics that charge high tuition and generally don’t provide financial aid to OOS students. So Michigan and UC Berkeley, which otherwise may have been great fits, are off the table.  We’re in Virginia, so in-state schools are good.  And there are other OOS publics that charge more reasonable tuition that are on the list. For privates, we’ve run NPC for schools kid is interested in; we have an absolute cap that falls somewhere between in-state tuition and list price for privates above which we can’t pay (and have explained that to kid), and for privates that are within range (in other words, more than in-state but less than our cap), we’ve explained that we will have to see what the financial aid package actually is and whether the extra cost is worthwhile.  So kid is aware of money and financial constraints and is read-in on how costs will be part of the decision making process, but nothing is ruled out unless we simply can’t do it.  Also hunting for some merit aid.

Otherwise, providing suggestions to kid and working with kid to develop list—there are some schools that we liked that kid doesn’t (and that’s fine).  The decision will ultimately be up to kid, subject to financial constraints above.  Kid is very objective, mature, and logical, so that helps![/quote]

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