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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My boyfriend is like this with his daughters who are in high school! He’s only saved fifty thousand per kid, makes 140k (so can’t pay as you go but also won’t get that much aid except at super wealthy top schools like Harvard) and is encouraging them to apply to privates that arent even all that great and don’t have tons of money for scholarships. I don’t get it. I can’t figure out if he is delusional or what.

I get applying to Harvard etc because they give grants to people at that level. But I don’t get why he’s encouraging them to apply to mediocre privates rather than encouraging state schools where they’d be able to graduate debt free or with maybe 20k in loans total.

I feel like he needs to tell them, “look, we can make state school happen financially, so apply to those, then apply to some privates if you want, but just be aware that you’ll have to get aid for those and you may or may not get enough aid.”

Just warn them rather than leaving them in the dark!  I think he thinks scholarships are going to fall out of the sky.[/quote]

Is your boyfriend like this about everything? You know - does he stick his head in the sand to avoid difficult conversations or disappointing people and does he always engage in magical thinking? You don’t have to answer me… [/quote]

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