| St. Mary's College of Maryland (great place, you REALLY should check it out if you want an LAC - as I keep saying again and again) gives up to full tuition, UMD gives free rides.
Merit aid is nice, very very nice - (previous posts) - and of course, Catch-22 (read with an Italian accent), my son turned them all down for a place offering none, nada, zilch, zero. Sure, he will become Joe-cool-academic-fancy-pants-whose-mom-may-as-well-work-in-a-fertilizer-factory, BUT he will be dressed in rags and working part-time in an Indian restaurant for spending money. Character building. |