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Here\u2019s the reality: \u00a0my son is a junior in high school. \u00a0He\u2019s got good grades, but so do plenty of other kids. \u00a0He doesn\u2019t have anything that gains him any diversity points, and he\u2019s not going to catch anyone\u2019s eye for leadership or community service or just plain being a good communicator, because, let\u2019s face it, he\u2019s not. \u00a0He had to write a practice application-style essay and it was a very painful exercise to help him through.<\/p>\n
And here\u2019s the further reality: \u00a0we have a pretty good chunk of assets, and make a decent some of money, and when you go onto the college financial aid calculators, well, they basically report that we can afford to pay any sum of money we want. \u00a0Yet we hear constantly about people getting good aid packages from private colleges, and from out-of-state public colleges, even when it comes to families that we have every reason to believe are as well-situated financially as we are. \u00a0Maybe they\u2019re really paying full price, and they just are more willing to write these tuition checks than we are.<\/p>\n
So here\u2019s my request: \u00a0if you\u2019re upper middle class, and you have a sky-high Expected Family Contribution, and you\u2019re sending one or more kids to college, are you actually getting a financial aid package or some kind of \u201cdiscount\u201d or are you paying full price?<\/p>\n
And, yes, this is a question I\u2019d love to ask some of our acquaintances, but for the fact that it really is asking about family finances. \u00a0But, hey, Disqus is anonymous!<\/p>\n
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Here\u2019s the reality: \u00a0my son is a junior in high school. \u00a0He\u2019s got good grades, but so do plenty of other kids. \u00a0He doesn\u2019t have anything that gains him any diversity points, and he\u2019s not going to catch anyone\u2019s eye for leadership or community service or just plain being a good communicator, because, let\u2019s face […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2209,"featured_media":5872,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[202,100],"class_list":["post-6184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-financial-aid","tag-universities"],"yoast_head":"\n