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[quote=Anonymous]No way my kid makes a decision until we have both admissions decisions AND financial aid offers from each of the twenty-three schools she applied to.

We are FARMS-eligible, Pell-eligible, and fee-waiver eligible -- and it would have been entirely foolish of my child not to max out the common app. We simply cannot afford to give up the opportunity to compare offers -- and we are definitely not alone.

* Yes, we ran the NPC's. No, they were not particularly accurate -- though FA offers are trickling in slowly and we'll have more data soon, hopefully.

At this point her best financial offer is from a school that would not have made the cut if we'd limited it to 8 or 10 or 12.

This could possibly work if and only if colleges did financial pre-reads -- and if merit scholarships were much, much more predictable than they currently are.

Until then, most of the students in this country aren't making a list of their favorite schools and seeing where they get in: They're making lists of schools based on TWO sets of unknowns. And we're not about to limit the number based on what works for full-pay prep school kids. [/quote]

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