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[quote=Anonymous]This isn’t new to all of us. When my kids were applying to college quite a few years ago we were making close to $1 million a year. Yet, there was no way we were going to throw money away on a second tier private school. We lived in VA, and if a kid got in there great, off they went (and two did) but if they didn’t it was another VA state school. We had one kid who turned down W&M for a substantial merit scholarship to Grinnell, and we were ok with that even though it still cost a little more even with the aid, but that’s only because Grinnell is a first tier college. We never played the merit game. We always “skipped over” the second tier. It didn’t matter that we could afford to do otherwise. You don’t do something stupid just because you can afford it. [/quote]
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