Any way I could afford this?

erhswimming
Tue, 27 Mar 2007 15:26:06 +0000

So, I’m another one of those kids in the too-rich, too-poor scenarios. Except this time I’m a little too rich for any school. Our family’s FAFSA EFC is 80,000, which I think would prevent us in any way from receiving financial aid from the schools I applied to (Yale, Princeton, blahblahblah). My parents are only willing to contribute $12k per year for sure, and my mom and dad both are financially uncertain about our future. They are both in the home-building industry, and if you haven’t been following it, it has basically been tanking.

I definitely have financially feasible options in college choice, but I’m still trying to figure out if there is ways I could afford these more expensive ones. I’m not too well-versed in the loan department, nor am I sure how much I could reasonably make on my own in the summer. Are there any options out there? We have a family of four, and all are younger than me and won’t enter college for another five years, if that makes a difference.

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