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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Did it ever occur to the "WHY DIDN'T YOU SAAVVVEE??!!!" harpies that some people have modest houses that are paid off b/c they were purchased within a budget? And drive old cars without car payments? That not everyone chooses an extravagant home and then expects aid? [/quote]

Also, just because they make $200-300K now doesn't mean they always have. We didn't. We were very late to saving for retirement, having reliable cars that were not used and 100 years old and breaking down, having reliable healthcare, a home, etc. That EFC doesn't tell the whole story, rather, only a snapshot in time. We saved aggressively for college in the time that we could and it is increasingly apparent that it will not be enough. [/quote]

If you just started making it, you don't change your lifestyle and put that extra money away.  We never changed our lifestyle as our income went up and that is our savings.  We have one reliable car.  The other ones are 12-20+ years old.  Our home needs a lot of work and we don't have reliable health care.  That's life.  And, yet, our priority is  college so we save.  We don't make in that range.[/quote]

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