<p>Another update: Second daughter got into Stanford, again had to turn it down because of the steep price tag. She also got a full ride to another top school and is very happy there. I feel like a could write a book about this admission/scholarship stuff ( I won’t because there are too may out there already) but my take away lesson is what someone else on this thread said–the very top schools WILL NOT give merit aid, so if you are middle to upper middle class financially (too rich for financial aid but too poor to have an excess $250,000 in tuition lying around) you can just forget it unless you want to mortgage every thing you own to send your kid to an Ivy. Not saying that is right or wrong, but that’s just the way it is. For us, knowing that the kids are all probably going to graduate/professional school at some point, it just wasn’t worth it to pay a huge amount for undergraduate.
Good luck to every one in the scholarship/merit aid quest!</p>
<p>Why would you encourage your d2 to apply to a school you very likely couldn’t afford, especially based on your experience with Harvard five years ago? These schools have net price calculators, now.</p>
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