@MiddleburyDad2 Lol! I honestly have no idea how I would classify us, probably the parents who refuse to make the necessary sacrifices. 
We love our life and our lifestyle, and, no, we are not willing to sacrifice it for college tuition. Of course it has nothing to with vacations or cars, and everything to do with just raising our children, all 8 of them. Wouldn’t change a thing.
Equally, we actually would have to be wealthy in order to send all our kids to elite colleges bc over all the kids our current expected contribution would add up to close to $1,000,000. (My husband has a great engineering career, but it isnt close to being that great. 
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Since we will have non-stop college kids for 25 yrs (our oldest started college in 2007 and our youngest is just finishing kindergarten) we would never be able to save for retirement.
So, no, their schools aren’t Dartmouth, but they are successfully meeting their career goals and with no debt. For us, that is the main objective. Life is good.
Kudos to the kids who can attend schools like Dartmouth bc that is a blessing.