<p>@sugoi15 - with that many kids in your house and a family income of only $65,000, I’m suprised you aren’t finding even better financial deals than you mentioned. Do you personally have money saved or does your family have some assets or something in addition to that modest income? In any event, even with those where you would have to pay $5,000-$8,000 per year, hopefully you can maybe have a work-study job that gets $2500 of that and then you could take loans for the rest…that would be a reasonable amount of debt I think. Good luck to you.</p>
<p>@jkeil911, @mom2collegekids - Oops, that was a typo. I meant John Hopkins, JHU. </p>
<p>@blueskyforever - I will look into RPI later, as their NPC is under maintenance right now</p>
<p>@stepay. I don’t have much saved in my personal account, only around 1,000 from a summer job. The only assets that come to mind is that our home is approx valued at $140,000. We still have $98k left to pay though. Other than that there isn’t any other money source other than my parent’s incomes.</p>
<p>If college tuition is 5k-8k per year, I can’t complain. Will just have to take some loans and/or work study. So it will be doable. </p>
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<p>The school’s NPC will be a better estimate of that school’s financial aid and net price than a generic EFC calculator.</p>
<p>Note that net price will include both the school’s calculation of EFC plus a student contribution of student loan and/or work earnings. Very few schools have a student contribution of $0.</p>
<p>UIUC, top in USA and meets your criteria</p>
<p>It’s very doubtful the OP would get much merit aid from UIUC which is highly competitive and no FA beyond the federal since he’s OOS.</p>
<p>OP, do look into Miami U. With your stats I’m sure you’d get some good merit $.</p>