If I hear, "I got merit aid from [need only school]!" one more time...

MiamiDAP
Fri, 21 May 2010 10:06:16 +0000

No ned to hear your own financial situation in reagrd to college tuition from advisor, family knows its finances.
It is surprizing that kid graduating #1 would not get to state flagship. Must be some kind of misunderstanding. My D. got Merit shcolarships from every single school that she has applied (yes, they were Merit, not need based, we are nowhere near to qualify for any need based, never felt like asking anybody about it). She applied only to one Private (the biggest scholarship), the rest State, one of which OOS. She is college senior next year at state school, in-state, all tuition has been covered and more. Definitely was worthwhile to choose state college, so we saved up for Grad. School, although at Private of her choice we would have paid about $5,000 / year with $28,000 / year covered by Merit $$. But anyway, she has graduated #1 in her HS class, and that is why I was so surprized to see that “a top HS student … Didn’t get into financial safety (state flagship, very competitive).” I am sure he would have gotten to Harvard. State schools got more competitive than Ivy’s? Interesting…