$175k income; Dad is retired. Any FA?

[sylvan8798]

<p>Some information from the website for 2009:</p>

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First destination data describes the specific career plans of graduates immediately following graduation.
 The proportion of all graduates indicating full-time employment after graduation is 31.1, considerably lower than in 2008 (37.8%). The number of graduates with full-time offers pending also dipped from 6.9 percent in 2008 to 4.6 in 2009. Taken together the full-time outlook is lower than 2008 (35.7%, 44.7% respectively).
 The mean starting salary for 2009 undergraduates was $42,853, lower than the 2008 mean salary of $48,094. Graduate students experienced similar decreases in salary - Doctoral students had an $8,000 decrease in mean salary since last year, and Master’s degree graduates experienced a dip in salary as well, but to a lesser degree.
 The rate of unemployment across all degree types rose to 21.7 percent for 2009, up from 14.1 percent in 2008. Master’s students have the highest level of unemployment (23.1%), as was the case in 2007 and 2008.
 The full-time employment rate for bachelor’s degree recipients has dipped considerably since 2007 and 2008, and the class is facing the largest involuntary unemployment rate of the past three years (22.6%).

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<p><a href=“http://ug-finaid.northwestern.edu/docs/graduateinformation2009.pdf[/url]”>http://ug-finaid.northwestern.edu/docs/graduateinformation2009.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;