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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Please read Never Enough by Jennifer Wallace. I consider myself a hands off parent who doesn’t push but I learned a lot and wish I’d read it sooner. As a donut hole family I understand the concern about eligibility for merit aid but I assure you that there is plenty of merit aid if you don’t pin all your hopes on a few brand-name schools. [/quote]

Way to find merit: find a private school that does give merit with 40-50% acceptance rate (+) and your kid is at/above the 75/80th percentile.  Want more merit, find one where your kid's stats are at/above 90%.  The merit will flow.

for example: 
Kid 1: 1500/3.99UW/10 AP---got merit at a T50 of 40K/year so total cost per year of only $40K.  Had two more for T70 with merit of $25-30K/year

Kid 2: 1250/3.5UW/No AP---merit of 35% of tuition at two schools ranked 80-100, total cost of $40K/year at either, got merit of 67% tuition at one ranked 120 where total cost/year was $25K.

Kid 2 demonstrates that yes, even non-Top students can get excellent merit if you look at the right places.

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