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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm always amazed at these threads and no one takes the time to analyze the cost differences.  to wit:

For my DC it came down to Northwestern, an Ivy and UVA.  Northwestern is now $88K a year.  UVA instate Arts & Sciences is $38K a year.  That's $352,000 versus $152,000.  In our tax bracket we would have to make $500,000 to pay for Northwestern in after-tax dollars (and no, no merit aid and zero help from FAFSA from any school we applied to - don't believe it when a school says 88 percent of our students are gettings aid.  That figures includes the FAFSA loan that anyone applying can get so its a false brag).  Most readers on DCUm will be full freight payers unless they drop down in selectivity.  It's disingenous to come on here and say in fall of senior year "We didn't plan! we need merit aid".  That ship has sailed unless you are willing to apply to schools in the second and third tier.  You have to start saving from birth - which we did - but it still wasn't enough.

So DC picked UVA.  We banked the $200K and it compunded and now can pay for grad school at Oxford and hopefully law school.  We could not have done this if he had picked a private.  YRMD.[/quote]

On LinkedIn there are only women, not men, who are UVa engineering -> Oxford. Maybe such personal information isn’t wise to post?[/quote]

did she say engineering? I don't think so, but I do think it's creepy that you're trying to stalk.[/quote]

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