10-15K looks a lot less than affordable, though, when your household income is only 45-75K.

I agree that parents who have been writing checks for private schooling probably won't find that particularly shocking, no.

But it can come as a pretty significant shock to learn that someone ELSE thinks that you can afford to write a check for 20K annually when your income is 90K and you, personally, estimate that your "discretionary" income is more like 16K annually.


Useful link:

http://projectonstudentdebt.org/index.php

This contains reasonably up-to-date info. One problem is that colleges have a vested interest in pledging to offer to meet "100% of need" but the catch is how they determine "need."

Students/families often do have to beg or borrow in order to make up the difference between what they can ACTUALLY pay, and what the college says that they can.



Schrödinger's cat walks into a bar. And doesn't.