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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, to be clear, private universities (like Cornell) might give need-based aid. Use the Net Price Calculator to find out how much. You can find it on the financial aid website for each college. No one here can guess whether you would get enough in need-based grants from a private to meet your budget.

For publics, you would need to look at in-state options, as well as the out of state publics that offer merit (which you may find are not top 50).

Consider whether you are asking about top 50 overall or top 50 for engineering and what you think that actually does for your student's future career. Engineering is a different kettle of fish from, say, investment banking. Prestige may matter for certain jobs from certain schools, but once you get outside the top ten, whether it really matters for your kid will depend on some specifics.

Consider your annual budget. If you will have 150 saved for this kid, and kid kicks in summer earnings or the small federal student loans, then let's say the total cost needs to be around 40k/yr.

Our family is not eligible for need-based aid. For my college freshman planning to study ECE, the only schools that came in at or under that price were two in-state publics and a mid-size private in the Northwest that is not in the top 50 either overall or for engineering. The private offered nice merit money that brought down the price and that is where he chose to attend. It is not a school that pops up in this forum often, but it is ABET-accredited. The rest will be up to him when he interviews. [/quote]

Would you mind sharing what the mid-sized private is?  Being originally from the PNW, I'm insanely curious.[/quote]

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