Scholarships: Ignatius & Magis

dbwes
Mon, 21 Dec 2009 10:55:12 +0000

Wow, the Marquette thread is starting to sound like the rest of CC…

eadad – you are so funny. And so right.

nkl – Good luck to your outstanding young lady. Hard decisions for you all ahead.

She is right not to underestimate the amount of science in the DPT. It has thrown my D for a bit of a loop – in her case, though, she has worked in the field as a PT aide and seems to still know it is what she wants to eventually do. In that case, these classes are seen as the necessary hurdles. It IS a lot of work.

Many of those schools, particularly ND and Vanderbilt, were considered at our house. Not that either girl was a shoo-in (who is, these days), but they certainly had good shots. University of Michigan, too – that particularly appealed to D1. I asked both if they would regret not applying. It was their choice, knowing that we would let them be debt-free up to a certain point, but not to the tune of 50,000+ per year. Both decided on their own that, should they be lucky enough to get in, they didn’t want to have to make that decision.

Every family has to do what is right for them. It’s very hard. We all want what’s best for our kids.

brutus, I hear what you are saying, but once parents have a certain amount of savings, really, schools like ND will only offer loans. Now Vanderbilt has gone to no-loans, but again, it all depends on what they figure your EFC to be. Northwestern, I will say, gave out a pretty upfront little pamphlet in which they outlined different family scenarios. At the upper end, they declared quite plainly that family X, with certain income and assets, would be offered loans. And that scenario was a typical upper middle class one.

At the level of these schools, where every applicant is outstanding, your child has to be quite the superstar for the school to want you badly enough to make it work.
And employers only pay for certain kinds of master’s degrees.

ND is a great school, a special place with probably one of the strongest alumni networks in the country.
But a debt-free future, with money for travel and that first house, is a beautiful thing as well.

Merry Christmas and good luck to all!