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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Sometimes you don't know if you can afford it, until they apply. [/b]

Friends son applied EA to school that gave significant merit to a Mminimum ACT or SAT score. After acceptance, they allowed him to retake but still did not make the cut (friend  hinted that he was sooo close). They could afford to pay the difference, but let him decide. He knew it wasn't the best financial choice compared to his close 2nd option, so decided on to attend #2 instead and save his parents $[/quote]

Nonsense.  You can run numbers via the FAFSA and NPCs for each school.  When acceptances and aid come in, there should be no surprises.  If there are, you have not done your homework.[/quote]

Merit can still be a surprise.[/quote]

Not really. The net price calculator was very accurate for all 10 of the schools that my son applied to. The merit aid was within a couple of thousand dollars of what we expected based on the NPC. [/quote]

We found the actual merit awards to be wildly different from the NPCs where there is a picture of a notebook with a calculator on top. [/quote]

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