$250,000 Family Income and Needs Aid (article)

COA at my Jesuit/private university alma mater is $77K this year. As a full pay family, we had to turn down D17’s acceptance. COA was $72K just two years ago when she applied and it went up another $5K? As much as I loved that place, we could not justify when we knew she could get a great education elsewhere for significantly less.