How CC helped me help my D

compmom
Wed, 12 Apr 2017 20:12:20 +0000

I know you have served as her GC and some of your post contains pronouns that indicate joint effort. But at this point, can you afford to let your daughter decide? UPenn is an amazing school with an amazing alumni network. I am surprised there is not more financial aid at your income level: certain other Ivies have aid up to that level with payment of 10% of costs. I really hope she can attend Quaker Days: it is very different visiting after acceptance. Are you explicitly discouraging Penn? Have you said no? I hope she can give it a shot but understand the finances.

I wanted our son to go to state U. instead of an Ivy but the Ivy gave him income opportunities during college that he would not have had- both summer and during the school year, and he paid off his loan in a year due to the job opportunities. I am glad, in retrospect, that we gave him that chance. Our income was petty low at that time and that Ivy did loans, not grants-- they have since stopped that.