Nothing is guaranteed as admission to elite colleges is a crap shoot. It sucks that on top of that we are Asians.
Kid has top SATS/SATII and GPAs. My third kid will be applying to college next year. She is currently attends an elite boarding school on full need based financial aid. Two older daughters attended same boarding school and Harvard on full need based aid. Harvard was very generous with need based aid.
When I ran Net Price Calculator based on projected income, HYP were all 11K and MIT and Stanford were $20K. Other ivies and other great computer science schools are 25K. Other ranked computer science schools are OOS and therefore may not be able to afford as it is out of our reach like Berkley, UUIC, Georgia tech etc. We are still looking for other merit based scholarships too.
This summer she is working in the computer science field and summer pay is very good. Kid is gung ho about majoring in computer science. We know Stanford and MIT are great. Among HYP due to great need based aid, we are looking for computer science ranking in these schools; she can apply only one SCEA College. Because of need based aid need, ED schools are out of running in early round.
Yes we have safeties in mind and some matches too as nothing is guranteed.
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