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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sorry OP, but your post does sound geared toward true reaches (not the "reach" to a school with a 60% acceptance rate). The best thing you can do for your kid to avoid the "bloodbath" is to help him/her find reaches, targets, and TRUE safeties they'd be happy going to. And if you have a high stats kid, they need to put the work in with the safety just as they would with the reach/match. [b]High stat kids are sometimes sidelined in the yeild protection process.[/b][/quote]

This is what worries me. [/quote]

Then apply ED.  The only people complaining about "yield protection" are those who didn't bother to apply ED and still thought they'd get in.  
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This is typical DCUM tone deaf.  Not everyone can chance going ED if it means full pay at $80/year.  Why is that so difficult to grasp?[/quote]

If you are accepted ED but cannot afford it, you can decline.  Why is that so difficult to grasp?[/quote]

That really applies only to full pay or low income.  If EFC is $50K and you cannot actually pay that (Because you just only make $160K/year and the federal govt somehow thinks that means you can afford $50K/year for your kid), then you can only get out of the ED if the aid is less than Total cost -50K.  That is where many middle income families are---they can't afford to pay the EFC!!! So it means ED is not an option for your family.

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First EFC, is not what the Federal Government thinks you can afford, it's just a number spit out by a formula applied uniformly to families.  If it's too high, that reflects lack of funding for aid, not actual ability to pay, or any value judgement.  Second, you fixate on your situation, and no doubt you'd prefer an EFC of $30K, but the family getting that EFC is likely making $100K.  You really think paying $30K is any easier for that family, than paying $50K is for yours?  They get a $20K discount, but they have to pay their bills with $60K less HHI.  Now, sure there's an income level so high that EFC is full pay, and full pay is a pittance, but no aid formula can correct for that.

DCUM is right on this one, fairy tale endings come with a price tag, sorry you watched too many cartoons.[/quote]

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