<p>SimpleLife,</p>
<p>Thanks for sharing your story. Do you think if your situation was different (siblings not graduating college, you not getting a raise), your son would have gone to MIT? For those of us whose household incomes will conceivably be the same all 4 years of college and who will actually have another child going into college during that time, might it be a different situation from yours? I never thought of the difficult situation that might occur in trying to choose between no cost to attend college at a financial safety and some cost to attend a first choice “great fit” school. </p>
<p>You’ve certainly given me much to think about as my oldest applies to colleges this fall.</p>