Read this article on a College site and parents ripped on the article on such things as:

This article assumes that the parents had no idea that their kids may go to college.
You shouldn’t pick a $55,000 college if you can’t afford it.
the woman contradicted herself by saying what they were expected to pay and then later said we would be thrilled by our expected family contribution
Don’t choose a Mercedes if every cent is allocated to other expenses
They ended up taking loans. Didn’t they learn?
Animation companies employ kids from community colleges
There were other comments that weren’t flattering.

I will say this. Having a high school senior in the process of picking colleges has made me more knowledgeable. If I had read this a year ago I might been sympathetic but not now. The article just doesn’t tell the whole story.