How early would a family need to begin their financial planning/engineering? Is this something the family CPA would typically handle?
Most of the schools my son has looked at provide very generous need based aid. So far only one seems to be more loan based. Many of the others promise the student will be debt free depending on the parent’s financial situation.
This might have been mentioned in another thread, Ivies will compete with each other on need/aid when recruiting an athlete. Don’t be shy about taking an offer to the other coaches to see if they’ll beat it.