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@thumper1 is right.
Yes, many privates offer “something” but that’s often because they’ve rigged their prices up so that they can offer “fake aid.” Getting a $10k grant off of a $65k per year school means little/nothing to a family with a $13k EFC.
We’ve seen the NPCs…they’ll offer $5k-15k per year as “merit” without even asking any stats!
I have an EFC equivalent to the OP and from the private schools my twins applied to (15 private schools between them), the grant awards varied between $21,000 and $53000 with most ranging in the mid-30’s. Yes the tuition is expensive but with $53,000 from one university and $46,000 from another, it makes the costs of these schools well below any in-state public option. The money will be there AnitaH73 though you may have to do a lot of comparing and researching to find it.
The money MIGHT be there.
@NJFabFour
It’s a little late to do some digging.
Also, we don’t know if the OP’s child qualifies for school that gives great aid or “preferential packaging”.
The OP has not come back, but I got the feeling that the EFC was unaffordable.
Mom2collegekids is too pessimistic. We got a financial aid deal for one kid that paid for almost everything - a better deal than the local state U. I know another kid who is a freshman at Northeastern and got a very good scholarship. I suppose that the school in question has to want your kid - so that finding a good match between you kid and the school is crucial. It may not be as easy as it was many years ago to get a scholarship to pay for college, but I have seen many students come up with the right offer - you have to apply and give the colleges the chance to make you an offer. Too much pessimism leads students to not apply to schools they are interested in and give the schools a chance to make an offer. Many private colleges have good financial aid officers who look for scholarships to match you up with - you just never know.
The schools that do meet need require pretty good stats to get admitted. We have no idea if the OP’s kid is qualified for those schools are not. The number of schools that meet need is pretty small – fewer than 100 of the 4,000 mentioned above.