<p>We too did not qualify for financial aid, but S got generous merit aid at his midwestern LAC. It’s still more expensive than his public state university but he is getting great value. </p>
<p>My sister was a prospective student at Berkeley years ago. She sat in on a calculus class that was so large it was taught in two separate auditoriums concurrently with the professor on a tv-type screen in one auditorium. My son’s calculus class this year, at midwestern LAC, had less than 25 kids and he had dinner at the professor’s house. He decided that he loved math-not his reaction in high school, as I recall. I think that’s worth paying up for.</p>