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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As the first two responses indicate, one reason people do pay all this money is that if you’re going to blink, you really need to do it early, like when you’re choosing high schools, to avoid massive social and emotional complications.  [/quote]

Good advice. For most of America, there’s no assumption you’ll be able to afford/attend the best school you can get into. But for certain parts of DCUMlandia, it raises eyebrows to tell your kids they can’t go to Harvard even if you get in due to cost. If that’s you, you gotta tell your kids early and often, because they might be in for a rude awakening. [/quote]

Harvard and most Top 50 are need blind. [/quote]

Need blind is good only for the poor. Harvard will provide little aid to a student whose family makes above $150k. [/quote]

Yes, two kids to Princeton. Paid the 70 grand a year. I am in the lower region of upper middle class so not an easy pull. Not a good value but having grown up desperately poor with a sick single mother and only an athletic scholarship to send me to college, making the next generation have opportunity meant biting the bullet and paying. I did plan so no debt anywhere, but paying those stiff prices for two is unnerving. [/quote]

This is us.  My parents limited me to only state schools and my husband grew up poor with a single mom.

We both are letting them go anywhere abd we will have to be full pay—also lower UMC.  Won’t be easy.[/quote]

NP. Do you feel you were limited by the state schools you attended? And do you think your kids (question is for both PP’s) will truly be set in a different direction by attending Princeton (or whatever exclusive  college they attend)? So many people say for an ambitious smart kid they will do well no matter where they attend. So I’m wondering if you can speak to that. [/quote]

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