<p>The BU financial aid page is good. Unfortunately with my son, a 3.3 GPA still put him in the bottom 50% at our high school. Cuts your potential scholarship in half, even if the SATs put him in the higher catagory. Live and learn. Our college searching for our youngest and third son will be with eyes wide open. Unfortunately, he will also get a an awful lot more hounding and lectures about ‘if you want to go to a good school’…
It’s sad, I just want him to be a kid and have fun, and not have to worry that his 8th grade math class will determine what college he goes to…and in fact, in our town, it sort of does. If you do not get placed in the higher math class, then freshman year you are not allowed to take Algebra II Honors, which means you get out of synch with tracking through to the highest levels of math at the honors and AP levels.<br>
Again, that’s another thread, but is related in that because colleges are so expensive now and it’s so stressful doing the searching, you have to start so early. Or I suppose, maybe it’s what you make of it.</p>