Need advice on college choice, $$, etc.

GreatKid
Sun, 06 Mar 2016 13:38:57 +0000

The key aspect of this discussion is being lost on some posters.
The parent told their son that they would pay and that they could pay. The family knew it was full pay and the vast majority of the schools applied to were schools where they would be full pay, including Princeton SCEA.
The young man is accepted at Princeton and now the parent is waffling, and the reason stated is because of the desire to retire early. Not inability to pay, not due to any unforeseen financial circumstance etc.
The kids application strategy would likely have been far different had he been aware of this.
I get the magnitude of writing the check at that level, we are doing it. It does get emotionally easier, especially so when you begin to see and live the amazing experience that your child has at a school like Princeton.
Had Princeton and the other full pay schools not been a possibility that should have been known to their child before the application process had begun.