Did anybody think that maybe the family could not afford to pay for cornell?
No. Cornell has tons of grant money available to meet the needs of low income families.
What a college thinks you can afford and what you actually can afford are often different. High Point may be able to offer more generous academic money to a student. A student may be average for Cornell and get no academic money and the same student would be very above average for High Point and get significant academic money. Leaving college with zero debt verus $100-200K in debt
I'd rather my son (or our family) carry that debt than have a degree with no value in the marketplace. It's called an investment using leverage.
Extreme and simply not true to suggest a degree from High Pint has no value. What if your son wants to turn around and become a HS teacher/lax coach? Is that zero value? Does that career path require an Ivy League degree? Academic money to pursue an education degree at an AE, NEC, MAAC or SOCON school may have a lot of value if you want to teach. A buddy of mine studied at Cornell and is now a cop. Great job, great degree, no justification for his Ivy debt.
