<p>momma-three - I don’t know ANY full pay parents who begrudge students who need financial aid and receive it. You make us all out to be villians. I can’t even figure out which full pay parents who have posted on this thread have indicated they begrudge need students. This is silly. We all need to stop generalizing.</p>
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<p>Scotch, neat.</p>
<p>single malt please</p>
<p>Sorry. Today is Bourbon day. Woodford Reserve.</p>
<p>(but I can make an exception-- if you can prove your need 
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<p>“I can’t even figure out which full pay parents who have posted on this thread have indicated they begrudge need students.”</p>
<p>see post 423.</p>
<p>But she hasn’t been here in a while, so I agree, lets move on.</p>
<p>Why don’t we just meet in Tuscany for wine.</p>
<p>jym…Must be a full payer to drink Woodford Reserve :)</p>
<p>Great idea, BU and BC!! Can we fly over in your private jet?</p>
<p>"single malt please "</p>
<p>sorry, no single malt for me, till after 2016. :)</p>
<p>qdogpa-</p>
<p>Got the military discount :)</p>
<p>"Great idea, BU and BC!! Can we fly over in your private jet? "</p>
<p>I take it Megabus doesnt go there?</p>
<p>Sure and you can all stay at my villa!</p>
<p>You are so generous, BUandBC. </p>
<p>Will you pay for the rest of my younger kids college tuition too? Maybe I should wait til we are on the second barrel of wine before I ask that</p>
<p>I’m not that generous!</p>
<p>momma three - I have a pretty thick skin and you have offended me. you should reread your posts. you lump a bunch of people together and make sweeping critical generalizations about them. I bet your kids are in school with great people from ALL economic backgrounds. Some of the wealthiest are the most generous. I am done with this thread too.</p>
<p>BU and BC-
His tuition is actually… zero (yay for merit aid). But you can pay the other incidentals- they really arent all that much. I promise.</p>
<p>Brooklynborndad…</p>
<p>sorry for the delayed response…the $27,600 for a family of 4 is what we were allowed in the FAFSA formula. It apparently hasn’t been updated since the early '60’s. My D attends a state university, we knew she would not qualify for FA but filling out the FAFSA was a requirement for her to be considered for merit aid.</p>
<p>"the $27,600 for a family of 4 is what we were allowed in the FAFSA formula.</p>
<p>we are not a full pay family, and our income minus EFC came to rather more than that. </p>
<p>Since we are looking to increase our income, I have played with formula to insure that adding income does not leave us worse off. </p>
<p>I am therefore puzzled how you got the above result, unless it was due to substantial savings. In which case, I think the idea is you use those, not that you live on 27k.</p>
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thats the kind of thinking that gets a bad reaction around here. Especially from the full pays. “Lets not work/earn more money b/c then we’ll get less aid”. Well, um… yes, you will need less. Crazy. Earn money and pay your bills. Makes sense to me.</p>
<p>Barkeep, pour me a double, and one for texasmom while you’re at it</p>
<p>Brooklynborndad…</p>
<p>Our income minus our EFC comes to more that $27,600 as well. But subtract taxes, the allowable for retirement (based on the oldest person in the house), and medical and it all works out pretty close. We have a type 1 diabetic child and our expenses are about $1,000 a month for his medication so we are allowed to account for it. We don’t have huge savings - our downfall was paying off our mortgage before our kids reached college age.</p>