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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How do people do all this? I have been researching so many colleges in between work tasks and it is too complicated and overwhelming. I feel like I am not equipped for this, that a wrong decision could have devastating consequences, financially, emotionally...[/quote]

Your kid should be doing this, not you.[/quote]

I'm paying for it so I need to be involved. If I could afford full pay 90k/year I wouldn't be stressing out.[/quote]

So stop looking at T25 schools (you won't get merit there).  Search in the 30-100 range (if you have a good student, go lower if needed). Basically find a good list of schools that give merit, then find ones where your kid is at/above 75-90% for scores/gpa and the acceptance rates are 25%+.  Find some that are also 50-60%+.  that is where you will find merit.  It exists for all kids.  
My 1200/3.5UW/No AP kid got 35% of tuition at 3 schools in the $65K range (6 years ago).  they were around 50% at each school.  Got 80% of tuition at a 65K school ranked near120---my kid was 85%+ for that school.   We were not even searching for merit, but it comes easily at most private schools ranked 50+, if your kid is 50%+

So that kid had 3 schools costing around $40K/year and 1 school costing ~$25K/year.  Oh and 2 in-state schools (not the flagship, but good schools) that with merit was only $18-20K/year.  
That kid is a good student, but not "great student"---they were not competitive for T50 schools.

My great student (3.98UW, 10 AP, 1520, excellent ECs) got 50% of total costs at a T50 school, bringing cost to $43K.  And 50% of tuition at T65 school, so freshman costs would have been ~$48K.  We did all of this without even searching for merit---they are attending a T40 school for full pay at $90K+.   But had we been searching, they could have found many places for under $20-25K, and gone in-state for about $15K.

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I am having trouble identifying these schools. It is VERY overwhelming to me. I'm open to any level school at all, I really don't care. I just do not want to pay 90k, and I also want him to really like where he goes. Right now we do not have a good list for this.[/quote]

So for DCUM to help in anyway, you need to provide stats (GPA/SAT), intended major/possible other majors or minors, what's important to your kid (large school, mid size, small---urban vs rural).

As a starter look at private schools in the 40-100 rankings---more privates give merit than state schools.  Most Jesuit schools give good merit.

We need more information.[/quote]

We don't, because we read the thread.  The info is given in it.[/quote]

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