Five lessons I learned the hard way from the college application process

“Katie Miller recently graduated from Walter Johnson High School in Bethesda, Md., where she was captain of the tennis team, leader of the spoken-word poetry club and edited her school literary magazine. She loves music and writing and is very relieved to be finished with the painful process of applying to colleges. Here, she reflects on what she learned along the way.” …

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2016/07/22/five-lessons-i-learned-the-hard-way-from-the-college-application-process/

This shouldn’t have been a surprise. Prestigious out-of-state public schools, especially the UCs, don’t usually give much financial aid.

I was also kind of confused about this: