<p>^ And as someone else stated, some schools don’t use RateMyProfessor.com. At USC, the undergraduate student government operates its own professor and course rating website, so the USC page at Professor is rather empty, drastically affecting the Forbes ranking.</p>
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Yes, I’m assuming I can get into them because I easily can.
And it depends on who you are. For some people the grass isn’t always greener. I don’t mind “poverty;” I have a very minimalist lifestyle. So paying less for college is really just an advantage. Quite happy with things the way you are.</p>
<p>this is bs syracuse cost 55</p>
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<p>Lol, it was me that originally said that. </p>
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<p>You can get into top privates and Ivies easily? With some in/near single digit admissions? Because those are the ones I was referring to. </p>
<p>And if you think that you can “easily” get into these schools, you’re in for a wake-up call. Additionally, if you can get into these and must pay full sticker price, then there are easily other highly rated universities that you can get a full ride to.</p>
<p>Either way, my points still stand.</p>
<p>I got to pay more tuition this year so that they could offer more scholarships. </p>
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<p>My D attends a school on the “most expensive” list and has a very large need-based scholarship. Other parents are NOT paying for it. Schools with excellent need-based aid have extremely generous donors. Yes, some of the tuition offsets are from operating income, I’m sure … but much of the money is from donors.</p>
<p>Interesting thread. But remember, not all “poverty” is equal. A relative of mine (6 figure income) rented out their home, bought a sailboat, pulled their children out of school and sailed around the world for 3 years, thereby draining all of their savings. They arrived home in time for their daughter to apply for college - FAFSA showed 0 income for 3 years and only assets were severely devalued CA home, and a used boat, parents did not have new jobs at time of application. So, voila, daughter gets full scholarship (tuition + room & board) at private college. Ony wish I had thought of that!! (and due to crappy California economy both parents are underemployed right now - so next year’s FAFSA might be similar).</p>
<p>^ Very few and rare cases are like. 99% of those in poverty are cases like mine. Your relative slipped through the cracks.</p>
<p>And they might be at a disadvantage. Imagine losing three years of schooling.</p>
<p>Plus, when their next few children go through, they’re probably going to have to pay a significant amount if they get their six figure jobs back. Then their SOL cause they drained their savings.</p>
<p>I hope not everyone is rushing to buy a boat :)</p>
<p>For this family, it worked because their D got one of those full rides or a very generours private school. The chances of getting those are very slim.</p>
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<p>Um, you don’t know that. </p>
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<p>This quote comes from DSs college newsletter from April 2010. His school just missed the top 10 list of Most expensive. And, as a full pay parent, this quote did not give me the warm fuzzies.</p>
<p>megpmom: One would not need to reduce income to 0. More likely to $59,999 as many schools seem to have a 60K/year cutoff.</p>
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No, not necessarily a slim chance at all DadII, unless you are assuming, as I suspect you are, that their dau is at a tippy top private school. Quite possible it is not a top tier or well known school at all.</p>
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<p>Either one: their daughter was accepted to a very top private that has a low acceptance rate. The odds of being admitted to one of those schools are slim. </p>
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<p>Their daughter is attending a not-so-selective private school and therefore is going on at least a partial academic scholarship (because very few non-selective privates have full financial aid like that) and therefore the odds of getting it were still slim. </p>
<p>Either way, the chances are very slim.</p>
<p>I am guessing there are more need-blind schools than get routinely talked about on cc. Like (and this is off the top of my head) Denison U, Knox College*, Rippon College, Truman State U, Randolph College, NJIT, College of the Ozarks, Webb Institute, Berea, etc.</p>
<p>And there are lots of schools in the lower tiers that will give generous merit $$ to qualified students. Just sayin’</p>
<h1>71, Thank you for clarifying. I am pretty sure less than 10% of students at any merit based scholarship offering school get full rider. My guess will be less than 5%. That is slim.</h1>
<p>DS calls and tells us that we forced him to attend X-University (a Forbes Most $$$$ college). He accuses us of making him spend his 6 $figure gift and saddle him with student debt well into his 40’s. He says that he could’ve gone to one of those 2nd tier schools that offered him big scholarship or gone to the State University one the State Scholar’s program and pay pitence. He’s whining, I know, but I feel guilty in that he feels so badly about the lost money, the lost opportunity to go to Calbal, travel to Europe and Asia, flashy car, and girls hanging on for the ride. </p>
<p>Did we do wrong? </p>
<p>{what do you think, jym626 }</p>
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<p>Difference between MERIT and NEED aid. You DO realize that, right? Either way, you are still proving that the odds are slim. It is also worth pointing out that need-blind means pretty much nothing in terms of financial aid. They do not guarantee to meet financial need. Therefore, I really don’t understand your post. Just sayin’</p>
<p>“Guessing” does not make statistics. And people frequently throw around the term “full ride” when that is not the correct term. The poster in post #66 said the girl got a FREE SCHOLARSHIP (room and board). That is NOT a free ride, dadII and is not all that uncommon. In my state, any student who can maintain a 3.0 GPA gets a FREE TUITION scholarship. That is not all that rare.</p>
<p>Um, you don’t know that. </p>
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<p>Actually, I DO know that. It is an endowed scholarship.</p>
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<p>Ok I am now utterly confused. </p>
<p>Free ride = not paying tuition, room, or board or anything. The poster said FULL scholarship which generally means free ride. </p>
<p>You are talking about full TUITION. NOT full room, board, etc. There is a huge difference. </p>
<p>Free tuition is common in some places. Full NEED-based scholarships are not. </p>
<p>You make little to no sense.</p>
<p>@LongPrime: Did you force him to attend that school and spend his own money / take out loans? If so, I would consider that an error. Of course, if he was a) legally an adult and b) financially independent he should have ignored you and just gone for the scholarship.</p>
<p>yes romani-- AHEM yourself. YOU BOTH are assuming that the posters friends dau got an entirely need based tuition room/board scholarship. Read carefully. It does not say that. I am guessing if the family truly had an EFC of 0, the girl probably got a combination of need and merit. Quite doable at MANY schools. NOT SO RARE AFTER ALL.</p>