CC admissions stories are breaking my heart

[ucbalumnus]

@albert69

You pretty much just summed up my oldest sister’s search for college, except that she didn’t get admitted to any of the schools that required the big money shelling. At any rate, in the application process, she assumed that my parents would pay for Harvard or Yale, even though they couldn’t and financial aid did not come raining down. I wish I could hear the parents side of the tale on some of the stories you mentioned, too.

I would not be surprised if many of these situations came about because the parents and the student did not have an honest talk about college cost constraints before the college application list was made. Then April of senior year comes and all of the choices are too expensive…