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<p>Eagle, I agree with you. At least this is what our family felt it needed to do. We needed to rely on tuition discounting, whether it came from financial aid, merit aid, or both. We also needed to look at what would be required to keep that merit aid b/c we were not going to play roulette with our futures. We really needed to see who was going to make our son's education doable (by our definition). We had a tougher road to climb, b/c our son is not a typical cc student, but a good student. </p>
<p>I keep wondering where this is all going lead 5 years, 10 years, and so on. Colleges cannot keep raising the COA and keep doors open to those who are not from the most affluent families, or the few brightest students (receiving large scholarship awards). What will happen to the B/B+ students who come from a family with an income of 75-100,000 and are living in a higher cost of living area? Oh, and I know many people believe that 75-100,000 is affluent, but l still don't think that 40,000+/year is afforable for this "affluent" group.</p>
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