<p>Oh, b.t.w. to all the pompous asses that think we didn’t do any research, nor planned ahead. Get over yourselves. You might want to go back and read the OP, and then read my response a couple of entries down from it. First, nowhere do I say I was deceived. the closest I come to that is in my second post where I said “just dissappointed”. We planned all along to send our kids where they wanted to go as long as they had a plan, also had skin in the game (some student loan money) and it made academic sense. We do have income such that I assumed there would be zero need based scholarships. It was simply interesting this one year that we have two in, to see the wheels grind, and note the variances between what schools “say” and what they do, and how those differences are calculated. No one’s going to die over this. To the person who said, “man up and pay”. You’re a little late, I paid both bills long before I posted. The reason that this thread is timed the way it is…is because I wrote it way after the appeal, and outcome. Sorry to spin you around like tops. Seems like you might want to chill out just a tiny bit. Again, re read my posts. and you’ll probably begin to understand. Or maybe not. Later.</p>
<p>So… you COULD pay, you just preferred not to. That sort of implies to me that the system is working closer to the way it should than you would like.</p>
<p>I disagree. That would be like going in to the car dealer to buy a Ford that was advertised at $25,000 with $1,000 cash back with certain conditions. So I go in to buy the car for the net of $24,000. And the salesman tells me, oh, well you have to be trading in another car to get that deal. Well I’m not trading my car, my family needs a second car, so I buy it anyway. Does that mean I’m not dissappointed. No I still think that the value was there, but had hoped to get it for less. Your response smacks of classism. You LOVE it that someone was made to pay full boat. Well that’s on you. It’s a sad way to go through life, Schadenfreude is not an attractive trait.</p>
<p>So Question Intparent. When your business had a bad year and you got more aid for your child…what if you hadn’t gotten more aid. would you have pulled her out of school. If so, your argument holds…if not, if you’d have found more resources somehow…then your comment two up is not supported.</p>
<p>This thread seems to have run its course. We don’t know Mitch’s finances nor do we know what his expectations were that he ended up disappointed. We only know they were different from what happened. I fail to see how anything meaningful can come from this with such fuzzy facts.</p>