Will they confuse retirement $ for college $?

<p>bm95050 -- </p>

<p>your parents need to educate themselves on how the whole paying for college thing works -- and fast!!</p>

<p>don't forget -- home equity is also counted.</p>

<p>have them go to <a href="http://finaid.org/calculators/finaidestimate.phtml%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://finaid.org/calculators/finaidestimate.phtml&lt;/a> and put some numbers into the calculator. JHU used the institutional methodology.</p>