<p>ok, I went to a college bound meeting during luch, at school. and now i feel stupied for applying OOS. 20 thousand a semester for 4 yrs. one word: LOANS. my dad makes over 100,000 per year. my mom is a housewife.</p>
<p>there are lots of financial aid calculators on teh web that can give a good estimate of what your EFC might be
I assume you are also applying for financial safties as well 
Our family found that my daughter top three choices were pretty similar in final cost to us- even though their before aid cost was very dissimilar
cheapest instate public college- no need based aid- some merit aid
but close to that was the private college- lots of need based aid- including grants
just a bit more was the out of state university which was brought down with merit aid- however because of cost and other attributes was the least attractive of the three.
so always have a range of schools from which to look at</p>
<p>my dad works for the college. each credit hr i will take: $5.</p>
<p>wait i take that back I took ENG101 and the total was $65.00</p>