<p>PG, per your post #102, you miss the whole point as usual. I have not ever been trying to impress anyone at the old country. If I had, I would have said I were affluent and rich. </p>
<p>DD knows she is going to get a Ph.D. or what have you since probably before she was 10. It was partly her idea to do the trip. She had all her four year pretty much planned out. Between interns and study abroad, she will not have much time in her junior and senior summers.</p>
<p>From this round we learnt that we will not be able to afford our EFC from the like of Duke or WashU. So, we, including DS, have agreed that DS will apply to ultra High and middle tier schools.</p>