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Was there a such thing as a "helicopter parent" when you all were growing up?
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No, but also there was no such thing as spending close to 200,000 to attend a 4 year school. While my D did her own college application stuff, I saw my role as and I was in charge of the financial aid and doing all of the research regarding how much it would cost our family, filing the FAFSA, CSS profile, taking care of the IDOC, breaking down the actuyal out of pocket cost and asking for a financial review when D narrowed everything down to 2 choices. While she looked at schools that met her need, I looked at the business of making this a financially feasible option for our family.
I just got finished reading the FA thread, which colleges gave you disappointing FA offers, and the one theme that I see in all of the post is that I think many of the families (parents and kids) did not do their due diligence as far as the money was concerned.