[LigmaYC]

>Your net worth will be lower next year, and they'll consider that

I was just giving an example to demonstrate how bad their calculator pricing was (280k fees < 250k savings without selling house) if you wanted to make it more realistic I would also take into account that my investments grow too.

>Their goal is to charge you the most you are able to pay, and someone with $250k in savings is able to pay $70k.

Seems pretty bad to me. Wouldn't pay 7k/year for BU, much less 70k.

[jefftk]

> without selling house

Sorry, are you saying the net worth you put into the calculator was more than $250k? Then $70k is even less surprising!

(If colleges ignored home values you could put your $250k into repaying your mortgage faster and report having no savings. They'd charge you $0. And if you needed money later you could borrow against the value of the house.)

[LigmaYC]

Ah yes, I should've considered selling my house for BU, thanks for the advice...

[jefftk]

It's completely reasonable for you to decide that "everything I have" is not a reasonable price to pay for college. What I'm getting at, is that these colleges are very careful not to charge you more than it is possible for you to pay. They are extremely good at price discrimination.

[LigmaYC]

>What I'm getting at, is that these colleges are very careful not to charge you more than it is possible for you to pay.

Never said it was impossible for me to pay, just said it was still expensive.