Originally Posted by Zen Scanner
Originally Posted by HowlerKarma
Ahhhh-- and delving a bit deeper still, most parents don't realize that "aid" at high priced institutions is often INCLUSIVE of some major borrowing on the part of the student/parent.

That's a perfectly valid means of "meeting need" in an institutional sense.

Not so much for students/families who are stuck borrowing 10-30K annually.

KWIM?

Personally and painfully, indeed. And they also don't mention that parental loans do not have a deferment (or didn't thirtyish years ago.) On that subject, I think it would be more enjoyable to just start at an affordable state school and never know what you are missing.

Unless, of course, "affordable state school" also turns out to be unaffordable. It's a relative term.