Middle Class Mexican-American

omgmakemesmarter
Fri, 21 Feb 2014 18:15:19 +0000

i don’t know if there is. but if there’s places that are already offering him a full ride why doesn’t he go to one of those schools. you could try to get the costs down at other schools through finding more scholarships but that sounds like a lot of work you shouldn’t have to do. and the prestige of the institution really isn’t that important. remember what the posters said in this thread when you were wondering if it’d impact his chances at medical schools to go somewhere less prestigious?

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they said not to worry. and certainly the prestige isn’t worth tens of thousands of dollars of your hard earned money. your son is hispanic, he has awesome stats ( stats that would be awesome for anyone applying anywhere) and he also has ambition. honestly the school should be paying for him to attend. for all of it. not you. not your family. the school. if they’re not then find a school that will, surely some schools will. possibly you could make some kind of deal with these ivy league schools that want you to contribute substantially, or whichever ones it is that want you to pay, like that if they make the cost zero for you, your son will go there, but if not he’s going somewhere else that’s not charging you guys a penny. as a “minority” student with the qualifications he has he’s way more precious to a lot of these prestigious schools then anything they could be charging you for him to attend. they would easily fold and give him a full scholarship if you made that the condition for him attending i think. i’m not saying do that, but just know how valuable your son is to them, he’s very valuable. that’s why i don’t like the idea of you having to pay for any of his education, the school is getting the way better deal and they know it. it’s like, they’d have the good deal no matter what. even with a full scholarship it would still be worth it to the school to recruit him. but just because they can charge you, just because your family is middle class and they can count on you not protesting the expense (because, hey, they’re prestigious and they accepted your son), they’re going to wring all that they think they can get from families like yours. that’s when you have to say no, and call them on their greed. if you contribute substantially in the end it’s okay, it’s not the end of the world or anything, but it just seems wrong to me.