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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My oldest "underapplied" and racked up significant merit aid at smaller schools.  (As a fed/teacher family, we needed that help and she did not want to run up significant loan debt for undergrad)  She is thriving as big fish in a small pond.  For her that is a significant self-esteem boost and she will likely graduate double major/double minor, summa cum laude, with many leadership positions and faculty connections.  The school name may not buy her access to a job as easily, but this kid will make it in life.  And she is happy![/quote]

NP. We need something like this! Can you name some of these schools? [/quote]

Our kids did this as well, for the same reasons. The standard advice to apply to “reach” schools does not apply if you need merit scholarship money, because by definition reach schools will not award it to your student.  Your student needs to be in the top quarter of applicants in order to get significant merit scholarship money.

For PP, look at colleges that change lives schools.[/quote]

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