Advice Please: Narrowing Colleges

curmudgeon
Sat, 10 Mar 2007 19:34:51 +0000

marite, I would be interested in knowing what %age of those kids “turning down” schools that don’t usually hear “no” are in the same income ballpark as D and the OP’s D? The $75K or so range ($70-100K maybe?) . I wonder if somebody has that data.

(We had a Fafsa of $13,700, a Profile of @ $17K and non-grant costs at Yale of $25K.)

As we tried to inform Yale of what we considered special circumstances , I just get the feeling that my group of income folks may make up a significant portion of those opting for greener pastures. I approached Yale and Amherst with an offer to discuss the problems of the middle class family and FA, specifically the self employed and owners of farms and ranches (yep, nothing is easy in my world) and neither responded. It has made me change my opinion of both institutions for similarly situated families in need of FA. (If anybody is reading from FA at either , I’m still happy to talk ;)).