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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kids are in ES. They will have a list of colleges they can apply to - which we can afford. End of story. They will not be eligible for FA and we are unable to fund two kids at the same time to an Ivy @ $140k per year + inflation x 4 years + grad school.

We will tour some colleges when they are in MS, as I did when I was in MS, just to get a sense of the college atmosphere.

And they are in academic programs designed to increase their chances at Canadian universities which require French.[/quote]
So short-sighted. Your short list of "parent-approved" affordable colleges will omit many great schools that would throw merit money at qualified students. If your kids are average, then your plan is the way to go. [/quote]

Your ignorance is abundant, given you have not seen our list.[/quote]

Not the PP but I had the same reaction to your statement. Your "list" would be based on the *sticker price* of the college and not on what the *actual* price would be.  You can't know what the actual price will be until your kid gets an offer. We don't qualify for FA either, but our kid got a 35% athletic scholarship for his dream school, which we never would have allowed him to go to at full sticker price (close to $70K).

Your kids are only in ES.  It's awfully early in the game to be so rigid.  You don't know what they will bring to the table when they are 17.  When the time comes, you can tell them what your budget is, and that they have to apply to some schools that are within that budget without any aid at all, and then they can also apply to some more expensive schools and see if merit aid fills the gap.  [/quote]

Like I said, but less politely, as you're not privy to our list, your comments are redundant.[/quote]

The point that people who are farther along in this process than you are trying to make is that you don't have enough info to even have a list yet. But since you think you do, share your list and your criteria.  This is an anonymous forum.... [/quote]

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