<p>My son was set on attending a Catholic university as well. Got very good offers from Saint Louis, Catholic, and Marquette, his top three choices, but still left us with 30K in loans a year.</p>
<p>Luckily, we found a wonderful Catholic community at a nearby OOS public that offered him a full ride plus. In fact, the honors college at the university has a similar Men for Others philosophy of his Jesuit high school and the colleges he had hoped to attend.</p>
<p>He will be attending there this fall, with a total cost of less than a thousand dollars a year. A welcome change after paying Catholic school tuition for the last 12 years, which basically tapped us out from being able to afford a Catholic college.</p>