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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't understand. Didn't you discuss the financials and run the NPCs for every school before applying? Sounds like substantial college savings means no need-based aid. Your child shouldn't have applied to any schools you both weren't willing to cover the difference for (given limited merit almost everywhere except a few schools for NMSF/NMF). Unfortunately you set your DC up for disappointment, which is a shame.

An alternative is taking a gap year to work and save as much money as possible, and to plan on working during school years and summer to help offset the extra costs. But a smart motivated kid will can do very well no matter where they attend UG![/quote]

Don't be a dick. Until you do it, you don't realize how stingy the FA or merit aid at these school really is. You hope for the best. Rubbing it in that "you did this" is just an a-hole thing to say.

Not everyone has time to research every school, possibility, etc. like the people on this board.

OP- my child had a D1 sports offer to a very high academic school (top 15). DC turned it down. That school was $90K a year. Even with athletic money (but no FA and no merit given by this school at all to anyone), it was not worth it. That's an absurd price tag to pay at almost full freight. We didn't know how stingy they'd be until DC got the offer. It was devastating to turn it down but . . .

DC is at a high performing d3 program at a school that people on here often mock. But DC is Dean's list, an athlete, and having a great experience. DC will graduate debt free with prob $100K+ left over for grad school. While many of DC's peers will be drowning in undergrad debt. Spin it as such.

Also DC talked to lots of professionals in the field of study and all said "it doesn't matter where you go to undergrad."[/quote]

The prior poster was right. Sounds like there is significant college savings but want money for grad school. It makes no sense to apply to a school that you know is out of your budget.

If a D1 truly offered your kid a spot, your kid was actively recruiting there and presumably you should have known no money was to be offered. When my kid recruited, every coach would ask if we’d need aid… and whether it was only available as need based (ivies, for example).

Why shoot the messenger? Sounds like mistakes have been made and you have to face them: we shouldn’t have encouraged you to apply to schools out of our budget, we shouldn’t have trusted the npc, we should have told the coach you can’t afford to attend without aid. [/quote]

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