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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]VERY few reasonably good students pay full list price for college. Sure, save what you can to help out but the reality is when they are in college there are scholarships to be had (academic and otherwise), your current income can be used to help pay for school, kids can earn money over the summers, and then add in savings.

If you have a student that is a B student or better with reasonable ACT/SAT scores, you can expect to pay 1/2 of the list price or less at private schools--state schools give very little in academic money and usually end up costing more for better students for the most part. Sending kids to community college to start can actually end up costing more in the end if kids qualify for scholarships at a 4 year college because transfer students just don't get the same money as freshmen.

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Really?  How do you define decent scores?  My DC has a 4.0 GPA unweighted and SAT score between 2000-2100, and I have been led to believe we should not expect any merit aid from any top 25-30 universities or colleges.  We will not qualify for financial aid but sure don't want to be one of the only families paying full freight.  Please convince me I am wrong and you are right!![/quote]
No, you are right and she is wrong. And it's more like top 50, not 25. 
Honors college in a state flagship is a much better deal for your DC.[/quote]

+1. DC got extremely generous offers of merit aid at 2nd and 3rd tier safeties, but zip from the highly selective school DC is now attending. We decided to let DC go to the highly selective college with no aid only because DC is planning for a major where the degree counts. If DC had been looking at a major where the degree is irrelevant, or one of the fine arts where paying off even a small amount of student loans would have been in doubt, we would have insisted on the 2nd tier school with generous aid.[/quote]

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