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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.

[b]Because DC is a strong student[/b], there were lots of options. (And in the end[b], 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.

*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]

Curious, what were the schools that offered that much merit aid?  And how strong of a student do you have to be?  Did your DC get into state flagship school?[/quote]

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