<p>@Colorado_Mom, I’m pretty sure your figures are right… but I was delighted to read them because I had a reason to run that calculation a couple weeks ago and was still walking around thinking “that can’t possibly be right”. </p>
<p>My two children are one grade apart so we were looking at two years of two kids in school… then our daughter came to us wanting to leave high school early and go to Bard College at Simon’s Rock (“The Early College”). There are many pros and cons outside the scope of this thread, but cons that struck me immediately were her losing out on three more AP courses and a chance to thereby save at least some tuition money wherever she went. That and the fear of having two kids in college, all four years. So I ran the numbers, and it works out that if the calculators are accurate, it would be slightly LESS costly for us to have them both in lockstep in all four years even if NONE of her AP courses carry over (which we are pretty sure will be the case at Simon’s Rock). Then came the realization that they might not all transfer over ay ANY school anyway and that odds were due to change in major/whatever she’d be unlikely to actually graduate in less than four years.</p>
<p>A fin aid book I picked up a weeks ago says people with twins are actually lucky as far as paying for college goes… the people who will probably actually pay more are ones who stagger their kids :(. Although I’m sure it doesn’t feel that way after 18 years of school trips at the same time, braces at the same time…</p>