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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Who is charging 80K? I remember being shocked at 72K two years ago!![/quote][/b]

Almost all the SLACs.  GO to the "cost of attending" page and add everything up.  My Slac is now $83K a year.  This doesn't pertain to instate schools.[/quote]

At the tippy top privates, only about half of the kids are paying sticker price. [/quote]

This. It's a high-cost, high-discount model that's been in place for years. [/quote]
The people it screws is those who make $250,000 so would never get FA but can’t afford to pay 80k a year for school. Those people are the ones whose kids go to UMD. [/quote]

This is very true. It's the ones earning 250-300,000 that have two kids in college and have to pay sticker price are the ones in trouble. [/quote]

You don’t necessarily have to pay sticker price. There are plenty of merit scholarships at most schools.

The real issue is that upper-middle class people have an unhealthy obsession with school rankings. This leads them to ignore the potential for merit scholarships at lower ranked schools in favor of paying full sticker at a higher ranking school.

Any kid who qualifies for admission to a Top 25 college can easily get much their tuition covered by merit scholarships, provided that they are willing to attend “second tier” schools.[/quote]

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