Chance Me: Columbia, Colby, Bryn Mawr

Can your parents afford the net prices coming from the colleges so far?

YOU can only borrow $5-7k per year… plus you have any earnings if you have a part time job.

Are your parents contributing the rest comfortably without taking on any additional loans for themselves? Answers like ‘we’ll figure it out’ are not good enough. You need actual $$$ amounts from them before you apply.

Have you got one, ideally two, safety schools which you can get into, are affordable without parent loans, and that you would actually attend? If not, I would start here and build up from there.

Hoping for merit to make a school affordable does NOT make it a safety, even if you have the grades/ stats.

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