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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a full pay parent of a kid at a SLAC, I will say that the cost really sucks and comes at significant consequence to our family, such as significantly reducing retirement savings, deferring needed home repairs, driving a 13 year old car that desperately needs to be replaced, limiting travel to visit my and our ability to care for them in the future, reducing and limiting extra-curricular activities for our other kids, limiting our college savings for our other kids, and significantly limiting our ability to financially help our college kid in the future.  In other words, it really sucks.

We made this decision because our college kid smart and intellectually curious, but really struggled socially and emotionally in high school.  I can tell you as a couple who went to ivy league schools, my kid's education is superior in almost every way (better rigor, interaction with faculty, course availability, course advising, student team work, etc.) to our experience.  [/quote]

With all the sacrifices you make, I bet you know something many DCUMers don't know - the meaning of life.  Life is not all about having $$$$$, fancy house, car, vacation, etc.  When you realize that your kids are lucky to have great parents like you, you'll know it's all worth it.  [/quote]

Yep.  We are not targeting SLACs but top tier schools knowing fully well we can get the same education at, say, UVA (we might end up at UVA or even worse, who knows).  It's the other intangibles - connections, quality of the experience and of course outcomes - that matter to us.  Even if I didn't spend the money on college, it's not like I'm going to buy a fancier house, or new car (ours are 17 and 10 yo and we plan on driving it to the ground).  We either give them money when we die or use it now for their education. [/quote]

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