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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP here -- I've done some of the College Solution free webinars and may sign up for the course -- she always gives a coupon out at the end of the free webinar. She is definitely a big believer in the Colleges that Change Lives.

Another point she makes is that you *cannot* let the kid be in the driver's seat of choosing colleges if you can't afford to pay full freight everywhere he might get in. There are a lot of posters on this particular board who throw fits about helicopter parenting/you're raising a wuss/your kid is the adult and it's his responsibility etc., but when it comes to paying tens of thousands a year in tuition and costs those posters are full of crap.

We are also in the boat of making way too much to ever qualify for financial aid and not having saved $300/K for each of our three kids to pay full freight at an Ivy or similarly-priced private college or university. So you can bet we will be very involved in our kids' college searches, because there is absolutely no sense in them picking lists of 12-15 schools that simply aren't affordable under any scenario.

My oldest is on track to have a very strong GPA and scores, and I know he wants to apply to several top-ranked schools because he's heard of them and they have good programs in what he wants to do. But it is not realistic for him to apply, because we just can't afford them if he gets in. My husband and I are both legacies of the same Ivy and we have a deep legacy history with that school, but there is no way my kids can apply ED (which is when the legacy helps, but you still have to have the table stakes of grades/SATs) because we couldn't afford the sticker price. So we are really hoping he wants to go to our state university and we are going to have to help him find other schools, whether out-of-state state universities or smaller colleges that give sufficient discounts through merit aid to make it affordable. He's got to focus on his grades, and he neither can -- nor should he have to -- figure out the financial range of what we can afford to do for him. That part is our job.[/quote]

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