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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I grew up in the Bay Area -- most of my high school class who went to college went to a UC school or a Cal State school, other than maybe 10-20 percent who went to private colleges or universities.  Even with the relative affluence of my hometown -- early-ish Silicon Valley, very UMC -- cost was absolutely a factor in college choice, particularly when the public schools were so strong and so affordable. Private school tuition has only skyrocketed since then. You better believe we will be looking at public. Since we live in DC, we are looking at OOS tuition (with DC TAG's help) everywhere, unfortunately.

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Same in Southern California. I applied to some private and OOS publics (I wanted to get away) but didn't get enough aid to persuade my parents it was worth it. Ended up having a great experience at CA public and was very happy with my first job out of college and my career has gone well from there.

Costs and aid landscape are very different now. In many cases a good in-state public makes a lot of sense but there are also a lot of schools that price with merit aid to be competitive with the in-state price. We pay about the same for one kid at a VA public and the other at a private that was a better fit than the VA options. 
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