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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. She ED'd because we can pay.   Just feeling some buyers remorse.[/quote]

You can afford it.  What’s the problem?  Imagine if your kid got in somewhere you couldn’t afford. [/quote]

Exactly.  Very little sympathy from me[/quote]

Wow. Why so mean?[/quote]

Because when I got into a great school, my parents COULDNT pay and I couldn’t go.  You can pay.  Yours can go.  Count your freaking blessings.  Your post is extremely off-putting. [/quote]

Stop. You COULD have gone with loans but chose not to. Which was probably a good idea! But don't begrudge OP. [/quote]

A student can only take ~$5.5K/year (total of 27K over 4 years) for undergrad loans.  They CANNOT get more loans without a parent co-signing.  My parents couldn't afford to take out loans.  They told us "we are paying $X per year for you and your siblings for college.  That is all we can afford the rest is on you to figure out". So we chose schools that we got merit/FA at that brought it into what we could afford with the max of student loans. And we worked our asses off in summer, all breaks and PT during the school year to have enough to pay all the bills for college.  If we didn't we were not going back.

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Same.  But as a kid you’d only in-state public and not even applying anywhere else, working butt off- I wanted to let my high stats kid have opportunities I did not have.  I’ll pay for certain Ivies.  Our state schools though (he’s in) are too good to justify other privates though.[/quote]

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