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[quote=Anonymous]Don’t educate yourself on merit aid now because things will change before your kid gets to college. Merit aid is often a phase schools go through as they attempt to move up the rankings and that they phase out as they succeed in doing so. UChicago is a recent example. USC is probably on the verge of becoming another. The most elite schools don’t give merit aid. And great state schools are a much better fall back than merit aid schools, especially if your DC wants to go to a major research university. USC was really the only merit aid school my DC would have considered applying to and it was pretty far down DC’s list (somewhere between #6 and #10). DC found a number of OOS publics more attractive. Most of those would have had merit money for in-state kids.[/quote]
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