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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The people congratulating themselves for sacrificing while judging others without knowing anything about their circumstances is cracking me up. OK you love your kids more than we do because you drove the same car for 10 years.

Here's what the sanctimonious self-sacrificing crowd doesn't get. There are those of us who think that YOU'RE foolish to pay 85K per year for college. It doesn't make financial sense in most cases. You're obsessed with the "best" schools when most research shows that kids going to good publics do just as well. So there are those of us who think, unless you're wealthy, it's foolish to save for 85K a year when you can get the same quality for 40K per year. We're not as into prestige and we're certainly not paying for it. So just know as you're judging us, we're also looking at your values with some critical questions....

Sorry for my tone, but the judgment assuming those who haven't saved for 85K per year are just selfishly splurging.... it's so far from how many of us approach this.[/quote]

For us, it's not about "prestige". More about "best fit". My kid wanted engineering (a somewhat unique one) and smaller (about 4-8K size) school  near a city (not rural/remote).  We looked for a wide range of the best schools for them.  DIdn't get into their reaches but got into several in the 30-60 range, most being $75-85K+.  Our state flagship is 30K+ undergrads, direct admit to "general engineering" and then you get to fight to get into your major.  If you want to change your major, most things they'd want to switch to are also direct admit and you wouldn't be able to get in (Ie. Most engineers who decide they can't hack it go to business---business school is almost as hard of admit as engineering, and not many get in freshman start, and certainly not if you just killed your gpa by struggling in engineering).   The only other state school that offers their engineering major is 25K+ undergrads and is a huge step down (60% of their public HS would easily get admission) and also too way too big.

We can easily afford $90K, it's saved, we are worth $$$.  So we let our kid apply wherever they want.  And they turned down $40K/year merit award at a T50 school to attend a T40 for full pay---because it's a better fit. 
But our kid knows that 99% of kids would be attending the other school on merit of $160k over 4 years.  [/quote]

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