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[quote=Anonymous]I'm an oldest child.  My parents warned me in the abstract early on and told me outright at the very beginning of the college application phase that I was free to try for and to go wherever I could win a scholarship (and a big one, not a small one), and that they would collaborate with me on the rest of my application list to make sure that I chose schools they could afford.  They said to me - quite justifiably - that it would not be fair for my education to compromise the educations of my siblings.  They had managed our family finances expertly, but were not in a position to out-of-pocket a private institution without significant merit aid, and this was in the days before any schools had "meet-all-need-without-loans" policies.

Outcome: I did indeed win a scholarship, but not to the kind of school where I had originally imagined myself.  I had a spectacular experience there, was launched into the best possible grad-school situation, and now have exactly the career I had wanted all those years ago.  I have no regrets and am very grateful to my parents for everything they did, and for their honesty, as hard as it felt at the time.[/quote]

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