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[quote=Anonymous]I am sympathetic to the people who are hard on the OP. She has been cagey re how much college savings she actually has, and the child's SATs. Both play major roles in college admissions and getting merit and aid.

Colleges do not care if your kid plans on going to med school and wants to put aside current savings for it. They do not accept you ring fencing 100k or 200k of your college savings for grad school. If you have that money, they expect you to use it for undergrad. It doesn't matter if salary is a lot lower than the savings may imply, if the money is there they expect you to use it. And you don't even know if kid will go to medical school anyway. The percent of 18 years old dreaming of med school who change their minds is going to be, what, 90%+ of intended premeds. And it's a field that is going to change dramatically due to AI, anyway.

Second, your kid most likely didn't have amazing SATs. If you wanted great merits, you needed excellent SATs. I had a recent conversation with an experienced parent who put three kids through college with merit aid and she said one of the smartest things to do is to invest in SAT prep classes and game the SATs to get the highest possible scores because merit offers are so heavily based on your SATs along with grades.

OP's kid didn't get the college admissions outcome she was hoping for because she has too much money and her SATs weren't high enough. [/quote]

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