@njdadjets very helpful and encouraging, thank you very much.
@ucbalumnus True, I should have added that in the original post because it should be part of the decision making.
College of New Jersey-26,879
Brooklyn College-npc site not working
City College-npc site not working
Hunter College-10632
Hofstra-35198
Lafayette College-18090
New Jersey Institute of Technology-18828
Ramapo-24239
Rensselaer Poly (GO RED!!!) - 18832
Rowan-23538
Rutgers Cam-npc site not working
Rutgers NB-30992
Rutgers Newark-31492
Stockton-13614
Stony Brook-37068
As you can see from the above, I take the npc for all these schools with a tiny grain of salt. The exact identical values were entered for the parameters for all of the schools’ npcs and some asked for more info, and others asked for just 5 or so questions. There is no way that rpi costs $4 more than NJIT. But those are legit the responses I got from identical entries.
I think we can afford about $9k to 10k after 6k loans. So all of these are probably going to be over budget by about 8-12k