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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]we're a full pay family who is looking for alternatives to my kids dream schools of Harvard, Yale, Georgetown.

boy, high stats, national awards, humanities major.

I guess we'd have a hard time turning down Harvard, etc.  But I'd like to skip over the rest of the T20 schools.  I'm not sure Georgetown is worth it, but I guess for the SFS.  But places like Tufts, BC at 90k makes no sense to me.

Can someone think of some schools with merit aid that might work. In NYS. Binghamton doesn't make his eyes light up, which I get.  Doesn't want a SLAC

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So you are a full pay family, but only willing to pay for Harvard and Yale and nowhere else in the top 20.

So forget about Vanderbilt, Brown, Princeton, MIT (great English Dept), Penn, Stanford, Northwestern, Duke, Chicago, Dartmouth and Notre Dame. Because, like Georgetown, they are totally not worth it.

Nor do you want to send your humanities major son to SLACs that thrive in the humanities - Williams, Swarthmore, Amherst, Bowdoin, Carlton, Grinnell.

You have a high stats kid, which is good. With national awards, which is good. And he is a boy who wants to do humanities, which is a major hook.

But, for you, all the schools above are off the list. He can only go where he will get merit.

And you think SUNY-Binghampton would be a good place for your son and are a little upset that he wasn't feeling the love for a commuter school.

OK.

So for merit at non-SLACs, I'd look at Alabama, Ole Miss, Arizona, Iowa, and Arizona. And hopefully he has a good experience, because he will resent you forever for denying him better schools as a wealthy family that could have offered better. [/quote]

I have two kids who got really good merit (more than 20k a year)  at Duke, ND and Vandy (btw the two of them).

So that is incorrect.

It is okay for a student not to want to go to school with 1500 kids and 30% of them are on teams.

And Bing is not a commuter school.

Who are you people?[/quote]

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