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I will give an anecdote: College pricing is bizarrely structured nowadays that my child with a 1300 SAT (equivalent to a 28 ACT) and 3.7 GPA and AP courses ended up at a state school with an 84% acceptance rate and a 66% 6-year graduation rate. After applying to 10 colleges, my DC got merit at about half of them (applied to small LACs, big state schools, small state schools, and everything in between) but we definitely could not swing over approx. $25k/year and merit wasn't bringing any schools but two of them under that. [b]The school DC is at is not a good fit[/b], but it is what it is.[/quote]

This is an honest question (not meant to be snarky at all).... Why did your DC have a school on their application list that was not a good fit?  I understand that the school may not be your DC's favorite out of their acceptances, or that it might be less of a fit compared to the others but that they needed to go this school based on financial fit.  But I don't understand if it is truly a "bad fit"?

Here are some (non-snarky) scenarios I am imagine but genuinely curious about what happened so we can avoid this at our house, if possible: 
DC ran out of steam in researching schools? 
DC did not fully understand that every school on that list is a true potential outcome?
DC wasn't able to get a true sense of the school before hand (or had a different interpretation than it turned out to be)?[/quote]

It is a valid question. The issue was that we settled in a state without realizing how stratified the costs of the instate public universities are here. The good ones are very expensive, and the much lesser ones, like the one my child goes to, are all dramatically less expensive. Yes, DC was not able to get a true sense of the school before hand due to COVID, and we wish we had toured it. I went to college 40 years ago and did not realize how different the costs and process are today, which I vow to research better in time for my next child. DC was accepted to 9 out of the 10 schools and would have been happy at several of them, but we had DC apply not knowing the merit possibilities and warned them that just because they applied did not mean the school would end up being an affordable, possible option. I don't think it would have been wise for us to cull most of the schools beforehand based on cost.[/quote]

Thanks for this answer.  Hopefully your DC will find their place at the school and be happy. So often in life, fit is what you make of it. So dream school, it may not be - but it could turn out to be a fit afterall.   [/quote]

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