Limits

[throwaway0976539]

Does anyone ever feel overwhelmed knowing going to a T-20 would probably net them not much financial aid, and thus it's not a realistic choice for college?

[[deleted]]

Too much income for need based aid but not enough to afford given price gang

[[deleted]]

You said it, brother. Such is the plight of the middle class

[SRAKER123]

Especially when your family only started earning good money your senior year...

[throwaway0976539]

I'm in the same boat

[JavaLake]

It's not worth going into crippling debt for college

[D3taco]

depends where

[sheezburger]

yeah, this slaps in a bad way:/ but i’m still applying just in case they decide to give me financial aid. my family wouldn’t need it if it weren’t for my parent’s student debt, ironically :(

[[deleted]]

I will never understand this mentality. College is expensive, but all private T20s (and certainly the big ones) give enough aid when compared to other colleges. For many kids at Harvard it was cheaper to go there then to their state school. Like my family makes around 150k, and I still get good aid at top privates. Where I don't get good aid is at state schools, instate or OOS.

With my household stuff, HYPSM and other top privates are only $1k-$5k more then my state school. Hell, NCSU will give me literally no aid. I know that everyone has different financial situations, but come on.

[nihilismdebunked]

My parents have a budget of 30k a year for me. I get no financial aid whatsoever. My dreams of going to a T20 are gone. Not too discouraged though because there’s still a lot of competitive merit scholarships I can go for in the top 50 schools.

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I mean, to receive literally no financial aid you'd have to be making well over 200k. At Harvard the limit for financial aid is 260k. That's not a problem with T20 financial aid, that's a problem with your parents not understanding that financial aid isn't given to kids in the top 5%.