Son had one financial wild card on the list, CMU. I did what EmsDad suggested above, and the rest of his list were probable schools. During the long stretch of rejections that came before his most important acceptances, I had a wild, anxiety fueled fear that he would be accepted only to CMU and we wouldn’t be able to afford it. Son knew that all the stars would need to align for him to attend the wild card school, but it would have still hurt to turn down a school because of finances. Luckily he was rejected! 