Well, I know in our case, even excellent aid is not going to be enough, and the schools where it could work would be next to impossible to get into, very low acceptance rates.
So we are back to borrowing too much, or taking a different major.
Parent I know had a daughter in the performing arts. She couldn’t afford the schools where daughter would most likely have the “connections,” though she still borrowed for the school daughter did attend. Daughter graduated, lived in NY for awhile trying to get work, had to come home with rather large loans to pay off.
Mother now wishes she had insisted daughter had taken a different major.