Matching safety for prospective CS student [MA resident, 3.8/1330, $0 parent contribution]

[ucbalumnus]

@bronzerfish

Although it seems to be a touchy subject for them, your parents are doing you no favors by dancing around the money topic. You need information from tax returns and ALL balances from bank accounts/stocks/CDs/savings/etc. to be able to fill out each college net price calculator correctly.

Once you have the info needed to run NPCs, you can run them for your favorite schools and see what you come up with (each place calculates need differently).

Or if they do not want to tell you, see if they are willing to run the NPCs and tell you the results.