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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Were results dismal compare it to past years because Ostrander isn't there ?[/quote]

A lot of kids may choose affortable schools and UMD as its a great school.  That doesn't mean results are dismal.[/quote]

Many of the kids might not have unlimited resources. I would think they got a full ride at UMd and most likely will go to grad school so why pay for undergrad?[/quote]
Very few get a full ride to UMD.

Lots of magnet kids do get the presidential scholar merit aid which is $20K for four years. My kid got that from RMIB.

Actually, several students from magnets do get rejected to UMD, but mostly for CS/eng.[/quote]

RM families are generally pretty comfortable.  They only take so many students per school so it's not surprising that not all don't get in.[/quote]

Comfortable doesn’t mean they have hundreds of thousands of dollars to spend per kid on college. Comfortable puts them in the donut hole.[/quote]
+1 and this is why many end up at UMD.

If we had to, we could shell out $100k/year, but it would wipe out our cash savings, and we could only do that for one kid.  What about the other kid?  The expectation that the parents should wipe out all savings before being eligible for any FA is crazy.
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Each family has its own priorities: some spend money on houses, some on traveling, some on restaurants, some renew their cars every 3-4 years.

There are also families, that consider the education of their kids the no. 1 priority. 100k/year is huge but this is how much you have to pay for top private education nowadays,  like it or not. We are discussing here the top of top schools in the world. [b]If you have a kid that's smart enough to get to MIT, I bet he/she will be super successful in his life and will land a high paid job after graduation. [/b]They will make enough money to pay the loans. 
This is not just a parent problem but a family decision. Your child is mature enough to understand the situation and take a decision together with you.

Blair's education is well preparing them for any kind of college challenge. Does it worth going into debts to continue the academic excellence journey? Our family decided it worth every penny but realities might be different. And, of course, the inteded major matters (a lot)!

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The well known Dale & Krueger study found that students who are qualified to be admitted to elite schools but attended elsewhere did equally well in terms of outcomes as those who actually attended such schools.

"We find that the return to college selectivity is sizeable for both cohorts in regression models that control for variables commonly observed by researchers, such as student high school GPA and SAT scores. However, when we adjust for unobserved student ability by controlling for the average SAT score of the colleges that students applied to, our estimates of the return to college selectivity fall substantially and are generally indistinguishable from zero. There were notable exceptions for certain subgroups. For black and Hispanic students and for students who come from less-educated families (in terms of their parents' education), the estimates of the return to college selectivity remain large, even in models that adjust for unobserved student characteristics."

https://www.nber.org/papers/w17159

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