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[quote=Anonymous]Op, do you have kids? If yes, are you willing to pay $80,000 a year for them to go to school? Also, you realize that as wonderful as your niece is, there are many many students just like her and being a National Merit Finalist doesn’t guarantee admission into a top twenty school. You are being awfully judgmental of your sister and bil or brother and sil (whatever the relationship is). We can afford to pay anything but of the schools she could get into, not one was worth $80,000. She ended up with a large merit award at a small lac that is not highly ranked but she liked and the cost was the same as public. My brother runs in a circle with very wealthy people and he says that they all feel that they’d rather spend 50,000 for an out of state flagship (or less if their kids get merit at a place like Alabama) than pay $80,000 at some schools. Obviously, there are plenty of people paying the tuition but just as many questioning the value when you can get a good education other places. Now, I’m not talking about turning down Harvard for Indiana. But when you get further down the “list”, you need to do a cost benefit analysis. It seems like your niece’s parents have done that. You aren’t helping the situation as you seem really out of touch with both college costs and how competitive admissions are now. [/quote]

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