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[quote=Anonymous]OP here.  Just wanted to come back and share my take-aways from this thread.  It has been very interesting.

1. Throughout many posters somehow equated my decisions to pay the full cost of my instate flagship as somehow NOT paying for my child's college education.  I'm not sure if that was people misreading, or people really believing that a four year degree from a good state school is not a quality education.

2.  Lots of references to [b]the best possible[/b] higher education for a child as being the absolute most important thing in "investing in your child's future" or the unquestionable most important thing to spend money on.  There was a little discussion of that premise, but not much.  Many posters seemed to take it as bedrock fact.  I obviously don't see it quite that way, and would love a discussion of the goals we are trying to achieve for our kids, what we think success looks like for them as adults, and any real data on correlation between certain types of education and those outcomes, that leads to people making that conclusion.  To be clear, not saying any point of view is objectively right or wrong, just that there can be legitimate differences of opinion based.

3.  Lots of confusion about how college can be funded, some of it possibly my own.

I haven't changed my opinion on what I am committed to doing for my kids when it comes to funding higher education.  But I am motivated to better understand more about college admissions and funding.  I'm still more than four years away, but I learned fromt his thread that it is best to get a handle on it.  I'll also spend today making sure that we are saving enough and in the best way to meet the obligation I feel I have.

Thanks all for the conversation.[/quote]

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