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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Actually you can.  We're in the same boat as you (HHI of $200K+ but well less than $300K) with one kid in college, the second in another year, and the third two years later -- in other words, during the 8 consecutive years our kids will be in college (and they BETTER get it done in 4 years!), will only have two in college for four years.  Currently, [b]we pay about $5500 per month (over ten months[/b]) for kid one's college (and no, we didn't qualify for any financial aid & our expected family contribution was calculated at $80K), but with two in college, we'll probably qualify for some FA if kid two also takes the private/no non-need-based FA route because in determining FA, it seems that the only thing that really matters when your HHI is over $100K is how many of your kids are in college -- so the more kids you have in college, the more "affordable" college becomes.  [/quote]

PP with the big mortgage, this might help you. This 10-month plan looks a lot like the 10-month tuition payment option for private schools. I'm the PP with all the FA info above, and we're also in the $200K+ boat, and we did the 10-month plan for private ES although we switched to public for MS and HS (helped a lot with the college savings) and now DC is headed to one if those colleges that's in the top 5-10 of any ranking and we didn't get FA. If you can swing $3,500/mo currently for private school, that'll get you more than half the way there to private college. These 10-month payment plans, which you can get through Sallie Mae and other places, are what we're going to do too. You don't have to spread out the full $55000 if you have savings, so we're going to do $2,000/mo.

That's if you decide the pricetag is worth it, of course, which is obviously up for debate here.[/quote]

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