With Brown, you better run the NPC. Sure, you have a large pool of money set aside, but do you want to spend $320K when maybe you can spend $80K (because you can at schools like Florida State) or $150K at W&M or maybe $200K at a LAC with merit.
Just because you have it doesn’t mean you need to spend it.
That’s a person question - just putting it out there because Brown only has need aid and sounds like you won’t qualify. VCU is $30K b4 merit aid and you’re likely to at least get the Deans scholarship of $8K a year.
So is $88K - we’ll say $90K over four years at VCU more attractive than $320K at Brown? That’s what you have to decide…not now…but if you get into Brown and it’s not likely quite honestly…but if you do, that’s the difficulty in all this and where the parents have to set the expectation up front - because $230K back in your pocket…or saved for grad school…that’s a lot of change 