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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For a moment of reflection: ours have no living grandparents to (not) care about such things.

That said.....this is a good start.

[quote=Anonymous]Give them "Who Gets In and Why." [/quote]

My current battle with DH is over how to pay for it. (And, yes, I've tried to get him to read "The Price You Pay"). DH thinks our good student/child will get "in" and get lots of "scholarship" money because "back when he [did it]" (in the 90s), kids with our kid's current stats....did. Those days are gone.
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He also has no clue what even in-state, all-in costs are.[/b] It's going to be a long Fall.[/quote]

It seems like this piece, at least, is easy to show him? Public Us at least are pretty transparent with the cost.[/quote]
I'm the PP with no living parents and the slow-to-the-game DH. And I apologize in advance for derailing an otherwise thoughtful thread.

While most State Us do give pricing info, [b]we haven't had a lot of success at finding many straight-up, merit-based monies for Virginia institutions a la [/b][url=https://scholarships.ua.edu/freshman/out-of-state/]University of Alabama[/url], [url=https://www.uky.edu/financialaid/scholarship-incoming-freshmen]University of Kentucky[/url], or even [url=https://admissions.wvu.edu/cost-and-aid/scholarship-chart]WVU[/url]. We'll just have to wait to see what comes back (if even accepted) in their Financial Aid Award Letter. Can't find the exact quote in Lieber's book but it was something like -- what other high-dollar purchase/expenditure do "we" make where we don't know [i]going in[/i] what the final cost will be? At least some other (non-VA) State Us make some effort to be transparent.

It's still a huge racket. It shouldn't be this hard.[/quote]

That's because Virginia colleges, for the most part, don't offer straight-up merit-based scholarships. States that offer that do so because they are trying to attract students to their state. Virginia doesn't need to, at least not at the most competitive schools. If you don't qualify for need-based aid, assume you are paying list price as an in-state student at UVA, W&M, VT.

FWIW, the only standardized merit awards I've found in VA are at UMW ($10k off for 4.0+ students) and CNU (a couple different awards).
https://cnu.edu/admission/freshman/scholarships/
https://www.umw.edu/admissions/in-state-merit-scholarship/

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