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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]O[b]P's son has 2330 SATs - I think he can aim higher than a lot of the colleges mentioned on here.[/b] OP, I think your son needs to (and stat!) decide if he wants to focus on applying to the colleges where he originally intended, or to a bunch of SLACs, because if he really wants to focus on SLACs, he should devote most of his applications to those colleges so he can apply to some reaches, some targets, some safeties and then see how financial aid works out at each place. St Mary's is a great in-state public choice and based on naviance at my child's high school, that should be a safety to target with your son's profile so be can really devote the rest of his app's to a range of SLACs.[/quote]

The whole reason why people were recommending SLACs a notch lower than a "match" was because OP said that their family cannot pay in full.  Although OP's DS could probably get admitted to places like, say, Haverford,  it is unlikely that he would get merit aid at those places.[/quote]

Exactly. I wish people would educate themselves before spouting off on these threads. Yes, OP's DS might be able to get into a top 20 school. But with one child in college, one at home, and a HHI of $200k+, this family will get NO financial aid. If they feel they can't afford to be full pay, there is simply NO POINT in applying to, say, Haverford or Williams, which offer only financial aid. The goal is to find schools that offer merit aid to a student of this caliber. It turns out there are a lot of them, but almost none of them are top 20 schools. Which is fine, because a fine education can still be had at many of them.

For families like this, a "reach" is not a school where admission is hit or miss for a student like this boy. Rather, a reach is a school that might offer merit aid to a student like this. That almost certainly means a school where admission for the student is pretty likely. Schools offer merit aid only  to the students they are trying to lure to campus.[/quote]

I would not assume no financial aid.  I know many people with HH incomes around 170K who qualified for aid.[/quote]

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