<p>There are 2 categories of “financially out of reach” thought. The first category for us is OOS public that D would likely get in, but that offer no merit aid. No way to afford UCs, etc. so we didn’t even consider them in the initial discernment process. The second category are the schools that are not financial safeties and are out of reach based on sticker price, but could offer a package of scholarships, grants, work study etc to make it work. We decided to spend time and money to visit several of these schools because at many interest and fit is tracked and important. D has “demonstrated” a lot of very genuine interest at her top 2 schools in this category. Hopefully one of them will work out, but there are more backup options also in the works as well.</p>