Reply to Affording College

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

Reply to "Affording College"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thanks for those of you providing some actual suggestions and commiserating; I appreciate hearing that I am not making this up in my mind. We do make above 200K but literally just above it effective two years ago. When C1 was born, our HHI was 65K. My annoyance is that 200K in Fairfax is not equivalent to 200K in Richmond, and I know that FAFSA doesn't take that into account at all.

C2 isn't my worry--I am positive we can play the LAC game of merit with them.

The older one wants to do engineering--specifically mechatronics. The schools I am seeing that actually have that program are seemingly unattainable. Engineering admissions programs are recommending to do STEM camps over the summer just to be admitted. We don't have the extra money to drop on those programs, and C1 is going to be working for the next two summers to save for college. Mason has an engineering program (and is C1's safety school currently), but it really isn't the nuanced area they want to student. [b]Test scores are just above average,[/b] though rigor will be the highest possible (will have IB diploma, DE math credit).

[/quote]

With average he is not going to get in anywhere better than Mason for Engineering, if he gets in there. You can easily afford Mason or similar schools at  38-45k all in on your 200k assuming your mortgage is 5k or so, which implies well above average house even in fairfax co.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics