<p>If all goes well as it seems it will, your problem will be choosing among your acceptances! Enjoy your senior year and chill.</p>
<p>I don’t know if it’s all that easy. Acceptances isn’t the only concern. Certainly, this student has the stats for a number of acceptances. However, the family clearly can’t pay their EFC, which is why they thought that they could STACK merit onto any FA awards to cover the cost of college.</p>
<p>If this student isn’t careful, he could end up without ANY affordable schools, not even USC. </p>
<p>First of all, we have no idea if he’d get a full tuition trustee award from USC. I have seen kids with amazing stats not get that award. </p>
<p>Secondly, even with a full tuition scholarship, he’s likely going to have about $15k-18k to pay. If his parents will pay that, then fine. If not, and he can only borrow $5500 and maybe put a couple thousand of summer earnings towards costs, then he’ll be short of funds.</p>
<p>656 fees
12,078 Room and board*
1,500 Books and supplies
900 Personal and Miscellaneous (VERY underestimated! should be about $2k)
580 Transportation (Very underestimated for an OOS student)</p>