Our D has submitted all but one of her applications and has 2 acceptances back. We think it’s pretty likely that she’ll be accepted to all of them – part of her application strategy was to find schools where her stats put her in the top 25% and she’s looking mostly at public universities. Another part of her strategy was finding schools which offered her the possibility of merit money.
She has said that she would be fine to attend any of the schools to which she’s applied. We’ve done lots of college visits – more than once to some of these places. All of them would work for her but some of them are clearly a better fit. She purposely tried not to have a dream school, but two of the schools on the list are her favorites.
We set a budget at the beginning of the process. All of her schools have the potential of being within budget. However, one of them is really going to be far and away the least expensive. I think that her two favorites are going to be within our stated budget, but will probably be about 10k more a year than the least expensive.
I know that this is a family by family decision. Paying for the other schools is absolutely doable for us - we determined that at the beginning. But we are also not a point where 40k is negligible. And I don’t think that the two favorites are distinctly ‘better’ schools. But I do think they’re a better fit for her.
If your child did not attend their best financial choice, how did you make that decision?
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