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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My son has been advised to shoot below his weight for merit. He is a junior, top 10% of class at a competitive high school with APs across the board, but we make too much and so we will be looking for merit. Our flagship is extremely competitive. That will be his first choice, however.

I know this a very common predicament, and so I am curious how other kids have fared when they ended up at schools that were not particularly competitive.  Did they end up thriving? Were they disappointed? Do you regret settling? What were the schools? Our tuition budget for him is $60k, which will open some doors but close many others. [/quote]

I don't know what you mean by "not particularly competitive." That could mean a lot of different things to different people. I was very unsure how my daughter compared because so many students have so many APs, good grades, good SATs, etc...we also did not quality for aid and while we would have done fully pay I really wanted her to get some merit to be able to save more of her 529 for grad school.

She ended up applying ED to an SLAC ranked around #30 because she truly loved the school and she ended up getting a big merit scholarship--which we did not necessarily expect. The process was so stressful, we just wanted it over with. She did not want to stay in state at a public.

Looking back and also because she did end up with the big merit scholarship, I think she would have had actually had a decent shot at one of the very top SLACs if she had done ED, but there was no way to know that. And honestly saving $140,000 over 4 years of college to me seems worth it, since most people don't even know what those top SLACs are. [/quote]

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