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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I always told DD not to worry about college costs, but my junior Dd, 1400 SATs, 4.2 w gpa is not factoring the cost of attending college.  The comparison of Va Tech (26k) vs bc (73k) is huge.  I make enough that need based aid will be limited.  I want her to graduate debt free.

Between her 529 and other savings, we can handle Tech with minimal lifestyle changes.  The private’s will not be attainable without significant changes (selling house)[/quote]

First, you are complaining that your daughter is not considering the precise thing you have always told her not to consider.  That is unfair and frankly, idiotic.

Second, if you make enough that need-based aid will be limited, I simply do not believe that you cannot afford BC without selling your house. Also, based on your post, you have saved slightly over $100,000 in her 529.  If you indeed make enough that need-based aid will be minimal, you have dramatically undersaved in the 529 (all while telling her to not worry about costs).  That's on you.

Third, if you want her to graduate debt-free, you take out the loans to pay for the difference.  [/quote]
This is such a tacky, tacky post.[/quote]

Why?[/quote]
You have to ask why speculating on someone’s finances and declaring what they can and cannot afford is tacky?

Oh, dear. [/quote]
 :roll: not when someone has posted on a public forum and explicitly asked for advice.  You are bizarre.[/quote]
Np. Telling someone they have “dramatically undersaved” - and thinking you are qualified to make that statement based off a few paragraphs on an anonymous forum - is NOT helpful and I agree, very tacky.[/quote]

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