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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When colleges compute your tuition amount, they expect the money to come from 3 sources: 1) Past earnings (savings), 2) Current earnings ((how much $$ you + your student can contribute this year)  and 3) Future earnings (loans).  if you are missing a piece of this puzzle (savings) or don't agree with their methodology (loans), find another school.[/quote]

We found other schools. DC applied only to

--in-state publics
--OOS publics with affordable (for us) OOS cost of attendance (i.e., NOT any California school or Michigan)
--private schools that offer merit aid to students like DC. That means we eliminated all privates that give only financial aid, and we eliminated merit-giving privates where DC was unlikely to be a top applicant.

Because DC is a strong student, there were lots of options. (And in the end, 5 colleges offered DC enough merit aid to bring the COA close to our in-state flagship.*) [b]There aren't as many options for kids who aren't strong students.[/b]

*I don't think it is a coincidence that all these colleges brought the COA close to our in-state flagship. I think they know what they are competing with.)[/quote]

This is my problem.  My DS's standardized test scores are in the 95th percentile.  But he is lazy and his grades are not great.  So, no way we are getting aid at a private, even one that is not top, even one that has relatively open admission.  We need to go to one of our state schools, even though our HHI is $250k.  I guess it is fine.  Classes with 100 kids and a commuter atmosphere won't really stop learning if he wants to do it.[/quote]

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