Safety LACs

Mwfan1921
Sat, 08 Aug 2020 12:29:04 +0000

zkreines:

DadTwoGirls:

To be a “safety”, a school has to be affordable.

I’m not quite sure if I understand what you mean by this. All the schools I’ve looked at are basically the same price, because they are all private liberal arts schools. I live in California so I have the UCs, but they are very different to the liberal arts kind of school I am interested in. Are there some private liberal arts schools that are cheaper than others?

Point is an academic safety has to affordable to be a safety. For example, if one needs to win a school’s large, named scholarship to afford it, that safety becomes a reach.

Run the net price calculators of each school that is on your list, NPCs are on every school’s website.

Some LACs give need-based aid only, do you qualify for that? Some LACs give both merit and need-based fin aid. The lower one goes in terms of ranking/status, the higher the tuition/cost discounting that generally occurs.

What is can/will your family pay for college per year?