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<p>If family finances and/or family’s ability and willingness to contribute is uncertain, he should have one or more of the huge automatic scholarship* schools with his desired engineering major on his list as a safety in case nothing is affordable on need-based aid, or the actual family contribution over four years is too uncertain to count on.</p>
<p>*The ones with residual cost within his ability to self-contribute with direct loans and/or work earnings.</p>