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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Schools are getting away with some very fuzzy wording, in may mind. Their idea of "demonstrated need" involves loans, definitely. Then they come away feeling good about themselves, but meanwhile they have saddled my child with loans she will have for year to come! I will say that the FAFSA calculator is pretty darn eye opening as to what they think we as parents are supposed to be able to contribute. I don't know how they think it's gonna happen, but for us with a combined income of just over 200K and another child in college, they expect us to contribute $30K per year for our rising college student. And they offered her $1K in work study and $5K in student loans. Total BS.[/quote]

What is your objection to the work study?

FWIW, the definition of demonstrated need varies across schools. If you do not want your DC taking out loans, then the option is for your DC to apply to schools that meet demonstrated need and do not include loans when doing so.

I can imagine this is frustrating, but you are in a more economically stable situation than so many in this country. I think I would have taken the trade off of attending a state school v the anxiety of growing up in a resource-starved household as I had to do. [/quote]

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