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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If your aren't a troll, your kids just go to the best in state college they can go to. Like most other people. [/quote]

There are lots of kids like yours, OP, including mine. My son had a perfect 1600 SAT score and a 4.8 weighted GPA coming out of the Blair magnet. He did very well at University of Maryland and did not apply to any top 20 schools because we could not afford them. And, we had saved quite a lot.

It's not unusual and it will be fine. What matters is how your kids do, not that they go to a brand name school.[/quote]

+2 Tell the kids you can afford VA state school budget. They can apply elsewhere but if it doesn't fit the budget it's off the list. They should start to look for things they can like about UVA/W&M/VT.

Read The Price You Pay for College by Ron Lieber
https://www.amazon.com/Price-You-Pay-College-Financial/dp/006286730X
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OP - kid is very set on getting out of VA as fast as she can, really wants New England schools[/quote]

so... just tell her that she cant.

i was a straight A, NMSF student who lived in north carolina and my parents basically made me go to UNC. I grumbled about it but it was a wonderful 4 four years, and I met lots of other brilliant classmates (either out of staters or other middle class north carolinians whose parents made them stay in state.)

It's not a failure![/quote]

Or you tell her she can if she chooses a lower ranked New England school and gets merit aid. [/quote]

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