IMPORTANT: can graduated seniors post the schools they will attend and aid recieved.

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True, but I think the OP is just trying to make the case that students shouldn’t necessarily be scared off of a college by the sticker price alone. In our case, we could not possibly have paid the official COA – and we aren’t. Through a combination of scholarships, grants, work study, and federal loans, we are only paying about 1/3 of that figure.

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<p>Yes, but did you reach that point by researching college FA policies and running EFC calculators or by reading about what great deals other people got regardless of their financial situation?</p>

<p>Each year on this forum we see the result of the point that the OP is making…kids who got into but can’t afford their schools (swallows to Capistrano syndrome).</p>