<p>abl… here’s the thing that I haven’t well articulated but is likely the case with the OP.</p>
<p>Weslyan is full price. What does this mean? It probably means her parents do not qualify for financial aid according the the standard measures. It does not mean they are well off. They are likely servicing a mortgage, loans on two cars, and living an upper middle class life. These are EXACTLY the type people Princeton and Harvard has realized were cut out of private school education.. the hard working professional upper middle class… let’s say husband and wife both working and pulling in $130,000 per year. $120,000 per year expenses, $10,000 per year into savings.</p>
<p>Where does such a family, who qualifies for ZERO financial aid, come up with $50,000 per year. They only have $10,000 per year to divert out of savings.</p>
<p>Thank goodness Harvard/Princeton/Yale/Stanford and trickling down would now only require such a family to kick in $13,000 per year.</p>
<p>I really hope the non-Top 10 quality private colleges and universities like Wesleyan, Vanderbuilt, Emory, Rice, etc will be able to find a similar way to accomodate the millions of upper middle class families that are caught in no-man’s-land with too much income for financial aid, and too little to pay the full tuition.</p>