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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Four kids with an income maybe 20K higher than OP here. We started saving before they were born when we earned significantly less and had our own student loans, live in a small house that needs work, husband and I share one old car, no fancy vacations or extravagant lifestyle and have made saving for our retirement a priority too. Youngest of the 4 is now 2 years from finishing college.  Three have gone to instate to UVA and the 4th was awarded a scholarship at a SLAC that made the cost of attending same as if she was in-state Virginia.

It’s called lots of sacrifice OP. [/quote]

[b]and that's something wrong in the US for the hard working middle class[/b][/quote]

Right here is the real point OP isn’t saying. You make $250k and you want a nice house, multiple nice cars, 2 vacations a year, AND be able to afford to send your kids to private university on someone else’s dime. You can afford public universities, OP. That is fine. Your kids will be fine. They aren’t “owed” an education at a $90k a year school. They aren’t “owed” financial aid. You could pay for it if you made a lot of sacrifices for many, many years. You didn’t and now you are annoyed. [b]Why does everyone think private universities are meant for the middle class?[/b] They are not. [/quote]

because those schools have a lot of money and a lot of place for students. if they can give aid to the "poor" they can give it to middle class as well.[/quote]

And there are plenty of schools that give excellent merit aid to everyone.  Just not T30 schools.  If you don't want to plan and save and actually pay for school yourself, you step down 1-2 tiers and get a great education for a lot less.

Once again, NOBODY is entitled to an elite education for free.  But there are 3K+ other excellent universities that can be affordable for you.   [/quote]

why are you so angry? is it because you lived like crap for so many years so that you can save gazillion dollars for private colleges? and now you are upset that yes, those colleges give substantial financial aid to 250k families, as they should?[/quote]

Bingo [/quote]

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