<p>Recession</a> alters parents' plans for kids' college -- chicagotribune.com</p>
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Sending Jake to college has always been "non-negotiable," said Susan Bersie, who attended college one year before leaving to help her parents run a business. "Everyone else did in my family and I didn't, so it was really important for me that he goes. Now ... I can't even afford at this point to put him in a junior college."</p>
<p>For families mulling college options, affordability is weighing more heavily than it has in years, officials say. The federal stimulus approved last month promises more financial aid for college. but it's unclear what impact it will have.</p>
<p>" Illinois students who may have applied to elite colleges—they are still applying there but are also applying to financially feasible schools, such as state schools," said Jean Childers, a career center assistant at Naperville Central High School.
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