<p>most ivy school will pay for your schooling if your parents make like under 60k which is great</p>
<p>@pierrechn makes a good point. My brother gets paid to go to Yale. No, that’s not a typo, but being married in college totally helps. </p>
<p>Obviously everyone’s situation is different and needs to be discussed thoroughly with family involved, etc., but I really think it’s worth going to the Ivy-league (or equivalent level) school, obtain debt, and live totally below your means for 5 years once you have a decent full-time job, sending every spare dollar to pay off that debt. I know some very successful people who used this method to (relatively) quickly pay off their college debt.</p>
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<p>Be careful though. My family’s income is right around 60K, but I applied to Northwestern University because, like Yale and the other Ivies, they claimed they would meet 100% of my financial need. </p>
<p>They did, sort of… but what they thought I could pay was way more than what I could actually afford. So now I’m going to Ole Miss instead. Haha.</p>
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<p>well i dont think Ole Miss is bad, i hear alot about their Football team during football season
but did you contact Northwesterns Financial Aid office and tell them your situation? sometimes a phone call makes a big difference</p>
<p>yes, I appealed my EFC with extensive documentation, and they only reduced it by a couple thousand. I even considered doing ROTC to help pay for it, but in the end decided against that route. I’ve already turned down the offer of admission, so it’s too late to do anything else.</p>
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<p>I turned down Case Western for Pitt, and couldn’t be gladder! I’ve met quite a few people who toured Case and thought the same thing: it’s gorgeous and amazing and really smart, but not worth over $50k/year, especially when Pitt was free.</p>
<p>^^ I’m happy to hear you chose the gooder over the badder choice ;-)</p>
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<p>Yes, but ivy schools also have a knack for choosing potential students that have considerable family connections; thus rich parents. But there are a few that get lucky…</p>
<p>Davematthews - dear god, if I was looking at being 140,000 in the hole after college I’d stab myself in the knee caps. Amazing how different reality can be for others.</p>
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<p>Not the most financially savvy solution I’ve heard of to that sort of problem. Would the objective be that the disability payment you would receive would be greater than the cost of surgery and make up for the loss of productivity in the workplace? Interesting strategy.</p>
<p>Or, if you weren’t serious, was that just an incredibly condescending metaphor?</p>
<p>Ghostbuster, what great advice! A different slant on this whole conversation, and probably the most salient little bit of wisdom I’ve read today. Bravo!</p>
<p>I was awarded full presidential at smu… but I also have a very good chance at Harvard because of athletics… I personally like smu better and feel it is a better match but I don’t know if I should ever consider passing harvard up because its “harvard”</p>
<p>Harvard - and the rest of the Ivy League - does not give out athletic scholarships… so? You’re just being recruited and expected to pay full ride?</p>
<p>Yup… I have to pay full</p>
<p>My daughter will most likely choose one of the CTCL (Colleges that Change Lives) schools over Franklin & Marshall and Bryn Mawr. She liked the school from the first moment she set foot on the campus and they’ve offered her a full tuition scholarship. So far, neither of the other two has offered a penny.</p>
<p>DD chose Pitt (great scholarship) over Georgetown and Chicago (winner pays all) and hasn’t looked back. She is challenged and has some flexibility to double major and also study more than one language.</p>
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<p>My son is home for break this weekend and comparing notes about his college experience. One big difference between a large uni and his private: class size. There are 9 kids in one of his classes. Talk about getting individual attention!</p>
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<p>My son is home for break this weekend and comparing notes about his college experience. One big difference between a large uni and his private: class size. There are 9 kids in one of his classes. Talk about getting individual attention!</p>
<p>To the guy at the top take the full ride at SMU, paying for Harvard is ridiculous , but it is HARVARD lol</p>
<p>I chose UNC over much better schools, and I thank God every day that I did. I love it here.</p>