Does anyone actually pay full price for expensive private colleges?

cptofthehouse
Fri, 11 Jun 2010 10:01:25 +0000

Take a look at the statistics on USWorld & NReport college guide. It gives you the percentage of kids on financial and merit aid for most every college. Those are the folks paying full freight. About half for the more selective schools, I’ve noticed.

I paid full list price for my son at a very expensive college. We did not get any financial or merit aid. We would have had to pay for each of the others as well, but one went to a state school, and the other has merit money. The 4th one is unlikely to get merit money. Maybe a bit of financial aid of sorts since we’ll have two in college for a year.