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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm just going to be a grumpy old lady for a minute here, but I'd like to point out that "back in my day" ( before student loans were widely available), if you couldn't afford to pay for it, you didn't go.  I graduated with a ton of smart people who went to SUNY schools, because even though they were accepted at Ivy's and such, if the money wasn't there, it wasn't there.  I guess the loan availability has changed the expectations, but I find that unfortunate. [/quote]

That's interesting because I graduated in the mid eighties from a private school that's a step below Harvard (think Georgetown, Northwestern, Duke, that level), and had plenty of classmates who attended in part because the financial aid package from the private school beat the one at their state's flagship.

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I assume you know that experience was not universal?  A friend of mine got into Harvard, but was not offered any aid at all, so he went to UT Austin. My high school valedictorian got into Brown, but went to SUNY Binghamton.  Your friends were fortunate to get good aid packages, but a lot of people didn't. [/quote]

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