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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hardly anyone pays sticker price.[/quote]

[b]That’s just not accurate. At top 20 schools typically 50-60% of students are not receiving aid. And at the next tier it’s 40-50% (more merit aid comes into play). [/b][/quote]

I've never understood why people bother to attend private colleges for schools that are outside of the top 150.  Every state has public universities that rank the same or higher.  Even families who are not paying the full sticker price of $45,000 are generally paying more than what they would pay for a similarly ranked state school  Take Virginia Wesleyan for example.  It's a non prestigious private college.  Why would anyone choose to pay for that as opposed to schools that attract similarly qualified student such as Longwood or Radford.  I just don't get it. [/quote]

There are lots of reasons, of course.  As I look ahead to my kid going to college, I often think about my former boss, who referred to his alma mater and large public university as "13th grade," meaning that he and his peer group just assumed they would automatically go there, without regard for whether it was the right environment, would lead to good jobs, would be a personally meaningful experience.  He happened to be one of the the least engaging, least empathetic, and least imaginative people I have ever met.  Perhaps I should not correlate his college selection experience to his later personality traits, but I do.

That's one of the main reasons I want my kid to consider the top in state schools, but also look more broadly.  I want college to be a meaningful experience for him, not 13th-16th grades.[/quote]

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