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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We don’t qualify for need-based aid. Here’s how it shook out for us, including merit aid:

Regional in-state: 15k
Flagship in-state: 30k
Flagship out-of-state public: $48k
Higher-ranked private: $72k

We went with the third option. My guess is that employers will begin to take private school grads with a grain of salt: they may be very bright, or they may just be very rich.
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You can be rich and very bright at same time.  Rich kids do not just "get admission" to an elite private because they are rich (except for someone ala Bush or Clinton or parent is Hollywood star).  Those kids are also very smart, they just happen to have rich parents or parents who have saved for $90K/year college.    
I'd argue it doesn't make sense to do option 3, unless your state flagship is not very good.  UVA/VAtech and UMD are all great schools and I cannot see paying extra to go anywhere else if my kid gets in
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Some out of state flagships give better merit aid.  Look at WVU, it's cheaper than most instate MD and VA schools.[/quote]

Exactly!  There are plenty of options if you have a specific price point in mind.  I'm West Coast and good friends kid went to WVU for engineering because it's excellent for MEchE/Aerospace.  With merit it was less than our excellent flagship.  If you think you have the resume for UMD/UVA/VaTech, you most certainly will get into WVU and it will be very affordable.  
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And if you don’t like WVU, there are lots of other colleges where you can do the same sort of thing: Arizona, Florida State, Kansas, Oklahoma State, Texas Tech, Nebraska etc. [/quote]

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