I have no doubt the kid will need to “take one for the team”. Like any other kid with a budget.
My point is that the kid is taking one for the team with zero knowledge about how other colleges will view their financial “special situation”, or how she might qualify for merit elsewhere.
It’s the inability to compare based on actual dollars and actually having visited the ED campus which is the issue in my mind. Not whether Lehigh is a great school- which it is. And not whether kids have to be pragmatic which of course they do.