Could I get into an Ivy League?

tsbna44
Tue, 13 Jul 2021 02:14:48 +0000

Have you gone on a net price calculator - or had your parents do so - to see if you’d get aid. With $100K in salary, a lot will depend on assets - you likely will get some but not all. Schools have charts and there’s always a disclaimer - based on average assets.

There are many aggressive schools out there. When you go to schools with others similar to you, you strike out. Where you go where you stand out as a superstar - U of Arizona, U of Alabama, Miami Ohio, Florida State - you go for dirt cheap!!!

At Arizona, a fine school btw, you’d pay $3K or so in tuition. With a 4.0 UW, you’d get $35K off the $37.5K tuition. FSU - an out of state waiver - so $7 or $8K tuition.

If you went to a Trinity - just throwing out a name - a solid but “lesser” school, I’m sure you’d get great merit.

My son goes out of state - has 90% tuition scholarship. My daughter going to a school that you’d consider lesser next year - but she’s in two of their leadership programs and tuition is covered. Both OOS.

There’s more out there than you realize - that’s what I’m trying to tell you!!!

You can hopefully get in with the top of the top - but then you have to afford it.

But you can get some safeties to back that up in case you don’t and it doesn’t have to be - well I’ll just go to Stephen F Austin or Sam Houston State, etc. You’ll have lots of affordable options if you play it right - at some very solid programs.