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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Congratulations to your son.  Sans snark, I must ask are those $ amounts your son was offered enough to bring the COA down at these SLACs?  These institutions all seem to have at least $60000+ COA plus one must factor in those travel costs to NE and the Midwest.

Also regarding SLACs, I am concerned about limited course offerings in higher-level STEM and languages. Thank you[/quote]

For 2 it brought the COA to $30,000-35,000. For the others it's about $25,000. As our family lives in DC, so there are no in-state colleges or universities. Even with the DC TAG $10K grant (which may or may not exist for all 4 years of undergrad) our COA at these SLACs is lower.

My DC is interested in studying economics / public policy / international affairs, so not concerned about higher-level STEM. There are state flagships that offer merit to high stat out of state students -- OSU, U of Georgia, U of Alabama, U of Arizona (you can find these through searches).

Obviously, YMMV but so far this approach is working for my DC, whose priorities were a relatively affordable undergrad experience, a small (<6,000 student) college with little to no Greek life. DC is also unhooked -- white male, not an athlete, typical extracurriculars and hasn't changed the world (yet) so while a Harvard (for example) would actually have been even more affordable for us per their NPC, he knew that he had a .00001 or less chance of admission. [/quote]

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