<p>These crazy parents are not going to contribute anything to this kid’s education and I know for sure they can afford to contribute more even than their EFC would suggest. It’s heartbreaking. I’m afraid that they may even pull the plug on filling out the FAFSA at all. </p>
<p>Last night I got out the list of schools with competitive full tuition or full ride scholarships and crossed referenced that with a list of 300 schools ranked in order by their 75th %ile SAT scores and put the list of big-merit scholarship schools in order from lowest 75th %ile scores to highest. Then I figured out which of those has engineering programs to further winnow the list of possibilities. That left maybe 12-14 possibilities for which his combined CR+M score puts him at least in the top quartile SAT score wise. I hope that means he will be a competitive applicant for the big merit awards. I gave him that list and told him to do some checking/researching of his own to see if he can target a few of those schools. Hopefully there will be a handful that he’s interested in.</p>