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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Complain about being a donut hole family? When there are thousands of colleges that could work between in state options and merit aid at lower tier privates and other oos public’s?l is it bc ivies and top 25 are not options?[/quote]

Entitlement and status obsession. Middle class who pretend to not be status obsessed pompous snobs, but they are -- they just don't have the money to play. They put on this bogus public persona that they they're just regular modest middle class people but secretly they are seething and obsessed with social hierarchy and status.[/quote]

This is outrageously insulting. In my cultural background we value education and the educational experience highly, and big public schools aren’t the same experience as smaller private schools.  It’s not purely a transaction to buy a degree.  (FWIW, although I got into an ivy that I wanted to attend, I went to the local state university for purely financial reasons, so I do have some understanding of this difference).  So when my kids both wanted to go to private schools — and by the way, all the top hundred or more schools are basically $75K/yr plus or minus a bit, it’s not just the top 25 — I support that. I’m willing and planning to (literally) mortgage my future for it. Your belittling statement about my choice isn’t evidence of my snobbery or status obsession, but that you lack the perspective to see that different people have different value systems. [/quote]

There are actually good private schools ranked under 150 that offer tons of merit.  So you can get the smaller private school experience for much less than $80K if you desire.  My own 1500 and 3.9 UW even got a T50 to cost less than $50K/year.  My 1200/3.5UW got 75% of tuition at a T130 bringing it down to $30K as well as 35% of tuition at a T80 making it $40K/year (and choose this one).   Great that you value education.  Many people do.  But nobody is entitled to admission and/or merit/FA at any university.  [/quote]

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