<p>It’s a stupid article with a clickbaity headline, but if you click through on the name of the parent in the article, you find out that</p>
<p>*The student was admitted for the fall of 2009. There weren’t any NPCs at the time.
*The family had a 529, but got hit hard by the financial meltdown.
*When faced with the realization that JHU was going to be too expensive, “We rejected outright Peterson’s core advice that we force our daughter to attend a second-tier college where she could negotiate for top-tier financial assistance based on merit.”
*The father only mentions FAFSA, not Profile. </p>