Advice of Financial Aid/Merit

So congrats on the EA. You should reach out for certain.

I believe from other posts you are trying to fund college without loans which is admirable and is something we were able to do more or less with two kids. So, two opposing concerns to consider…

  1. I’m not sure what your students careers plans are but if it’s med school then really think about keeping loans down. But if it’s CS or other STEM a moderate amount of loans may be manageable and might make the school do-able. YMMV

  2. College costs only go up but aid usually does not. So you should budget for higher tuition each year. Where does that put you?