<p>Vehemently agree with you captofhouse. Many families already viewing the mediocre privates/LACs as having priced themselves out of the market. My oldest will be a freshman at an OOS flagship next fall, and it’s COA roughly $18-20k less annually than several of the privates she was accepted to. Also was arguably her highest reach school (the flagship she’ll be attending) and she didn’t have to “settle” for second best. Next child in line is 15 and in 2 more years I go into all of this with eyes WIDE OPEN.</p>