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<li> Every family needs to talk about how they can finance college</li>
<li> 100K is very hard to pay off</li>
<li> Some major/careers require an elite UG University, others do not. Don’t take on 150K of debt for a career that pays 50K/yr…you are dead if you do. Do go if you want a high income career that recruits only from top U’s.</li>
<li> Most students at Duke (80%) are full pay or no pay. This is typical at other top privates. The upper middle class are all at the state flagship honors program. It’s the economics of higher education.</li>
<li> It does seem odd that “need blind” universities have the least number of need students. One would expect 2% of graduating HS students to be able to pay the full COA. At Duke (and most top privates) 40-50% do not have need…</li>
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