re: #46 klystron

My sisters also got scholarships, although not quite as good*, from solid schools (although not necessarily top-tier).

And then the Ivies have stupidly good financial aid packages if you fall under certain cutoffs, but they’re also stupidly hard to get into and I don’t think I wish that on anyone, especially not if the goal is to be a science teacher. :) That would be overkill.

* Sibling rivalry compels me to say this. But in the end, out of three kids, my parents paid room x 1, board x 2, and half tuition x 1. And an allowance, so that working was not required and we didn’t fuck up the grades from the scholarship point of view. The baby graduates college in May, so my experiences are somewhat recent.