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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid was admitted to:

UCLA 
Washington & Lee
UVA
William and Mary
Miami University 
American University 
Christopher Newport University

Rejected from:

UC Berkeley 
NYU (today)

She is extremely bitter because I won’t co-sign six figures of parent plus loans to attend UCLA. You cannot convince me it’s $120,000 better than UVA or W&M. In fact, W&M is more highly rated for undergraduate teaching (#4 in country, tied with Princeton and behind Brown, Elon and Georgia Tech, of all places).

She hears from Duke tomorrow and Brown next week. I am anticipating rejections from both.

I have tried to explain to her that her success rate is incredible and a lot of kids with better stats aren’t even getting into some places she has. But it doesn’t matter. She is fixated on selectivity percentages rather than finding a school that will be the right fit. Says she will be “miserable” going to school in Virginia. I said misery is making payments on six figures of college debt for 20-25 years.

Serenity now. Or at least better drugs...[/quote]

This is on you.  If you weren't willing to co-sign that's fine -- I agree with you -- but you should have made that clear to her before she even applied.[/quote]

Sweetie. I did.

She applied anyway hoping for aid. I warned her it wouldn’t be forthcoming.

A lot of growing up is happening now.[/quote]

Sometimes they have to find out for themselves. You have my condolences!

But for the PP who said, "you never know when you'll get a good aid package," actually, often you do know.  UCs, by state law, cannot offer merit aid to OOS students. And every parent should know what kind of need- based aid their kid is likely to get-- this can be easily guesstimated by running different schools' best price calculators and by completing the FAFSA. My guess is that this kid's UCLA outcome was completely predictable.

Part of the problem is that it's not just kids who engage in magical thinking. [/quote]

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