<p>Well, I feel a litle guilty at having hijacked OP’s thread into a purely financial one… let me make amends, if it is possible at this point, by asking OP about some of the unanswered questions here –</p>
<p>-which school does OP prefer, and why, if $ were no object (abl, you assumed OP prefers WES, but it is not so stated)
-what do OP’s parents think about all this? Is $ an object?
-Have the aid options at WES been explored and exhausted?</p>