Can some people clear up some things about these schools?

[modestmelody]

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hmom05, err, no I haven’t yet, but I do think we will qualify. My parents combined make 70,000-90,000 a year, but I think it’s more in the spectrum of 70-80K. We own no unusual assets to speak of, our home, my mom’s car, my dad’s car, and mine, none of which (especially mine ) are nice by any means. And then I have a sister in college, with no financial aid/scholarships, at a state-school. We have no major medical bills, and don’t think we have any other major bills. And finally, if this matters, we haven’t bought anything extravagent within the last few years, no expensive vacations, etc.

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<p>At Brown you’d be looking at slightly more than half paid for each year with no loans with numbers like this (certainly while your sister is in college, and during that time possibly as much as 3/4s).</p>

<p>Most top schools will provide you with significant aid so I wouldn’t worry too much about expense on the front end and see how things play out with packages on the back end if you get in.</p>

<p>Of course, this is assuming no large college savings funds and stuff like that.</p>

<p>My parents make slightly more (just under 100k) and we had 60k saved for my college + I had an $18,500 scholarship + my sister was only in school for my last two years at Brown + I live on LI so even though my parents bought our house at 100k, it was worth just less than 500k when I entered Brown + financial aid has gotten better over the last four years.</p>

<p>I’m graduating undergrad with about $8500 in subsidized government loans on Sunday.</p>