State School vs Harvard: Any Middle Ground?

haavain
Tue, 01 Jun 2010 17:16:54 +0000

People forget that many of full need schools, still expect the parents to pay their full contribution, and ALSO expect the student to take out max student loans, do work-study, and give a summer contribution (the student’s responsibility, I’ve noticed, is roughly the amount of personal expenses, books, and travel - I guess many schools really don’t want to be paying for those things).



Trust me, I (staring down at my Chicago aid package) have not forgotten any of those things. That would be difficult for me to do.

When I said “signficant,” I didn’t mean “great.” We have a 26k EFC and still get 20k in grant aid, which I would consider “signficant.”