@ParentofA_student
What exactly do you want…? Or are you just venting?
You have $260,000 a year income. This very likely will NOT net you a dime of need based aid at ANY college in this country. So…either decide you are paying the full price…or two your kid she can’t go to college.
She won’t get aid at Yale…or really anywhere else.
But she could get very very substantial merit aid at Ole Miss, or Alabama.
These applications are live…now. She could apply to Alabama and have her admission decision with aid in about three weeks. And it would certainly be a fraction of the cost of Yale…or UNC…or ND…or UVA…or any of the other schools you have named.
What bout your own instate public university? Surely it’s less costly than Yale.