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am not sure of my budget, my parents want to wait to talk about it once I’m getting acceptances/scholarships
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This is so dangerous. What if all of your schools are expensive even after scholarships? We see so many students, each spring, who post and say that none of their schools are affordable and that their families expected more aid/merit.
Please shake this out with your parents. Ask them, if the net cost after scholarships is - say - $50k per year, will they pay that. If they say, no, then continue asking, bringing the costs down by about $10k per year …until they say that they will pay that amount.
We’ve seen parents say what your parents have said only to later find out that they simply meant that cost didn’t matter because they expected their child to just take out loans for whatever the amount is. Ugh