Some hard lessons about college costs

[BCEagle91]

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<p>But often, the net price of LACs is less than that of state universities - at least
that’s true in Illinois. My D got accepted to four schools, three of them private - all
less expensive than any of our in-state publics would have been. </p>

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<p>That’s the downside of a high sticker price. There might be a great used car at the Mercedes dealership but many wouldn’t go there to look at used cars assuming that they’re all fairly expensive there.</p>